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ReadingReading books by women vs men
Posted October 19, 2020 by bluestocking in Books

A French feminist recently published a provocative book suggesting that women should "eliminate men from their minds" by no longer consuming any works by men. No books by men, no films by men, no music by men, etc. They've been the default for too long, so we need to center women's creations instead.

(Read more on this discussion thread)

As you can imagine, there was a huge backlash, suggesting this is "totalitarianism." But given how pervasive books by men are, and how boys and men won't even read books by women or with female characters, she certainly has a point.

What do you think? Do you think you could go without reading any books by men?

How many of the books you've read have been by women? Have you made an effort to read more books by women?

37 comments

bellatrixbellsBoobatrixRexJanuary 23, 2022

She looks like Justin Bieber's twin that his parents kept in the attic and fed with fish heads.

ThelnebriatiJanuary 23, 2022

I vote we put bellatrixbells in charge of insults.

bellatrixbellsBoobatrixRexJanuary 24, 2022

Ay caramba ! I'm honoured !! ❤️

IrishTheFrenchienon-cis logicJanuary 23, 2022

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

[Deleted]January 23, 2022

And they still didn’t end up with a cat after that effort.

bellatrixbellsBoobatrixRexJanuary 24, 2022

I don't get it ? Is that a part I don't remember ?

[Deleted]January 24, 2022

I was just thinking fed on fishheads => cat. I’d much rather have a cat than Justin Bieber’s twin!

ThelnebriatiJanuary 24, 2022

I got it.

bellatrixbellsBoobatrixRexJanuary 24, 2022

Ohhh haha !

Cat > JB

Indeed

[Deleted]January 24, 2022

Or Ellen Page, for that matter.

bellatrixbellsBoobatrixRexJanuary 24, 2022

Huehuehue

[Deleted]January 25, 2022

😈

[Deleted]January 23, 2022

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bluffJanuary 26, 2022

Yeah because making fun of a GNC woman's appearance is a new and interesting take...

bellatrixbellsBoobatrixRexJanuary 26, 2022

I saw her and I thought she looked liked Bieber. She also looks sick. So yeah, she looks like a sick version of JB. I added a Simpsons joke to the mix. That was a pretty sarcastic comment. I'm not mocking her because she's "GNC", I'm mocking the fact that... This is what she looks like.

Plus, I don't think mutilating yourself with cosmetic surgery and artificial hormones in the hope of looking like someone of the opposite sex is being GNC.

But I do hear you. That wasn't a nice comment. I'm just really, really tired of TIPs.

BlackCirce🔮 🐖 🐖 🐖 🐖January 23, 2022

😂 Danny Devito is 4’ 10”

[Deleted]January 23, 2022

When you try to be so woke that you literally forget the short legend that is Danny Devito 🤦‍♀️🥚

[Deleted]January 23, 2022

And he’s far more a celebrity and noteworthy than she is.

ProxyMusicBrysexualJanuary 23, 2022

Peter Dinklage is 4' 5"

PumpkinSpiceVaginaJanuary 23, 2022

Warwick Davis is 3'6".

SulphuricMirror👁BeNotAfraid👁January 23, 2022

Seriously, I was wondering where all the male actors with dwarfism were at? Are they not considered male below a certain height, but a woman over 5' with amputated breasts is? Clown world.

ElleGeeBeeJanuary 23, 2022

I was about to say Peter Dinklage and Danny DeVito (4'10")

IrishTheFrenchienon-cis logicJanuary 23, 2022

He's definitely not any taller than 5 feet.

bumpyjerboaJanuary 23, 2022

This was my first thought!!!! 😂

KissMyOvariesJanuary 23, 2022

I’ve yet to see a “trans” pic of Ellen where she doesn’t look like an 11 year old boy. I can’t see her love life going well as while most men want to date women who appear to be pre-pubescent, the same cannot be said about women.

SulphuricMirror👁BeNotAfraid👁January 23, 2022

She looks like an 11 year old boy that smoked two packs of cigarettes everyday for 30 years. Something about older Tifs makes them look like simultaneously teenaged boys but also like they're prematurely approaching middle age. I guess it's the drugs that fuck them up.

diana00912January 23, 2022

tbh what makes me realize a female is a "trans man" isn't a masculine look or presentation, but their cystic acne and terrible skin.

bluffJanuary 26, 2022

Apply this logic to a butch woman and maybe you'll realize how homophobic you sound...

Julie92845January 23, 2022

So, the answers are Joe Pesci and Michael J Fox?

IrishTheFrenchienon-cis logicJanuary 23, 2022

Well, they did forget Danny DeVito, who's definitely shorter than both.

YoureNotaClownfishJanuary 23, 2022

Omg, men will love this because they will be statistically taller now.

IrishTheFrenchienon-cis logicJanuary 23, 2022

Which is one of the many reasons why men aren't really against any of this. They get to lower women's boundaries while TIFs make the weakest/smallest/least desirable of men appear larger.

butchpleaseJanuary 23, 2022

Look at the female records TIMs hold.

Look at the male "records" TIFs hold.

worried19January 23, 2022

Literal insanity.

GenderHereticJanuary 23, 2022(Edited January 23, 2022)

Reasons why men support trans ideology #487

IrishTheFrenchienon-cis logicJanuary 23, 2022

Yep.

Now short men can appear "tall" as TiFs skew the height stats.

SulphuricMirror👁BeNotAfraid👁January 23, 2022

LMAO