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NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/books/review/look-at-us-tl-toma.html
Archive: https://archive.md/yJFQD
Excerpt: > Martin spends a lot of time imagining the exotic, yet in his view more authentic, lives of the less privileged people around him — his building super, for example, an Estonian immigrant who, Martin observes, carries an “odor of garlic and tobacco,” and the super’s wife, whom Martin imagines to have a “rich woody boscage” of a vagina. These essentialized fantasies are often connected with sex and are, predictably, even more distasteful when the people he’s describing aren’t white — after watching a documentary about Mexican pearl divers, he concludes that their modest shacks were a fair trade for their lovers, “women who took pleasure in the pleasure they could give a man.” Later he fantasizes about being with his own “dusky woman.”
In conclusion: > ...I was mostly too tired to care.
Has anyone read Lydia Kiesling's work? This review made me more interested in reading her debut novel than this dude's book.
Is there an eighth deadly sin called Doomscrolling, or does that just fall under Sloth?
Probably a heady mix of gluttony and sloth. I wouldn’t call my thriftiness or my career something that’s fueled by greed etc.
Gluttony and Sloth. I like food and I like lying around lmao.
You, me and at least half of the mammals in Earth.
I don't even think those are sins, let alone capital ones. Is the default configuration for living things and nobody can convince me otherwise
Well Christianity is a renunciative religion. So I don’t think they would try to convince you that sloth and gluttony aren’t the default configuration, but that they should be overcome.
Sure, but with how much they emphasis sin and stuff, it kinda feels more punitive than aspirational sometimes, you know?
Definitely sloth. I identify as this penguin who doesn’t want to get out of bed
Definitely Wrath, but my Sloth keeps it submerged so it's fairly inconspicuous.
Sloth for sure, but also anemia.
Wrath, unfortunately. I'd rather be less angry and have other problems instead, but here we are. I'm working on it.
Wrath when I was younger.
Sloth now that I'm older, but I feel like I've earned my sloth, so I don't feel too guilty about it. :)
Lust and wrath
This is the most masculine answer, but I honestly don’t know what the most feminine answer would be.
Heyyyy twinsies. But my wrath largely went away after I finally got divorced.
My wrath has been channeled into looking up articles about men behaving badly in dresses haha
That’s wonderful! I’ve mellowed out as I’ve aged
Lust
Someone else needs to comment lust so I don't feel alone 😂
Lust for me, absolutely.
Glad it's not just me. I don't feel I have a lot of vices, but lust is definitely one. A lot of my dumbest decisions are related to that.
I don't consider Pride a sin (unless we are talking about the parade-lol); I consider lack of humility a sin. So I am going with sloth.
Hubris
ah yes, good word. More of that than I prefer to see around here, but I suffer from it too. I am suffering from it right now in fact!
right now I'd say sloth, with a side of gluttony and envy. I'm least guilty of wrath and pride
Sloth, or maybe Envy?
Lol, to be honest, aside from Lust and Gluttony, I’m kinda guilty of all of them equally.
From most to least 'guilty':
Pride > Wrath > Sloth > Gluttony > Greed > Envy > Lust.
I guess my homosexuality made me sinner enough so I don't get to be much of a sinner based on the deadly sins! 🤭 If I really had to pick one, maybe that would be pride.
Interesting choice given the rest of your answer!
I thought at first the question was which deadly sin are you most fond of. Sloth. I enjoy it.