senoritaraquelita t1_jd91vqf wrote on March 22, 2023 at 6:27 PM

Reply to comment by noodledoodledoo in I don’t like Giovanni from Giovanni’s Room (by James Baldwin) by West_b0und

I mean, how can a writer write about misogyny and the negative effects of heteronormativity without depicting misogynistic characters?

noodledoodledoo t1_jdcg4hn wrote on March 23, 2023 at 12:24 PM

I mean I'm not saying it's wrong or that people shouldn't write it or read it, I'm saying that sometimes I don't want to read it right now.

And I'm sick of people acting like I'm taking a moral stance when I just occasionally just don't want to read about hate directed at myself. When I ask for a book rec without themes of misogyny I'm tired of people acting like I want to ban misogynistic characters. I just want to have fun without being reminded of real world misogyny sometimes. If I want an escapist fantasy from the real world sometimes misogyny is what I want to escape from. If I want to read a book with misogynistic characters or themes I can pick up almost any book.