hot girl action pt. 2
So, here's what I decided on. Chopin's The Awakening (not a choice I'm proud of), Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues (which was recommended to me and which I have never read) and Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones (which I have never read but at least I know what this one's about).
Two things should become apparent to you if you tried to do the task set before you in Hot Girl Action. First, women don't care about how perverts and sexual deviants think. If they did, they'd write books about it, but as there are no books of this kind, there simply isn't that same degree of fascination with that human urge as there is for, say, David Foster Wallace (I will be teaching Brief Interviews With Hideous Men). What does that mean? For years, we've been discussing women's sexuality as a pristine thing--objects of lust and not makers of it. Recently, that attitude has come under fire (by recently I mean within the last 100 years, mainly the last fifty). Well, where the hell is the literature to support this? I want a book by a woman about that teacher who had kids with her 12 year old student. Of course, that's not child molestation anymore because he grew up and now they're married. Maybe that's the problem. Maybe we can't find a male, in fiction, that can be victimized sexually by a woman. Can't rape the willing, and therefore, if the sexes are reversed in Lolita, there simply isn't a story. I'm not sure who should be more offended if this is the case, men or women.
The other possibility is that, if a woman does write about sexual perversion, she runs the risk of her stuff being labelled as erotica. I don't know if this is true, but if it is, I won't know about those books, I won't take them seriously, and chances are, knowing that they won't be taken seriously, women won't write them. Maybe that's to blame.
Nonetheless, the absence of such literature is a bit conspicuous.
Two things should become apparent to you if you tried to do the task set before you in Hot Girl Action. First, women don't care about how perverts and sexual deviants think. If they did, they'd write books about it, but as there are no books of this kind, there simply isn't that same degree of fascination with that human urge as there is for, say, David Foster Wallace (I will be teaching Brief Interviews With Hideous Men). What does that mean? For years, we've been discussing women's sexuality as a pristine thing--objects of lust and not makers of it. Recently, that attitude has come under fire (by recently I mean within the last 100 years, mainly the last fifty). Well, where the hell is the literature to support this? I want a book by a woman about that teacher who had kids with her 12 year old student. Of course, that's not child molestation anymore because he grew up and now they're married. Maybe that's the problem. Maybe we can't find a male, in fiction, that can be victimized sexually by a woman. Can't rape the willing, and therefore, if the sexes are reversed in Lolita, there simply isn't a story. I'm not sure who should be more offended if this is the case, men or women.
The other possibility is that, if a woman does write about sexual perversion, she runs the risk of her stuff being labelled as erotica. I don't know if this is true, but if it is, I won't know about those books, I won't take them seriously, and chances are, knowing that they won't be taken seriously, women won't write them. Maybe that's to blame.
Nonetheless, the absence of such literature is a bit conspicuous.
posted by Monstro D. Whale at
7:04 AM
1 Comments:
"The other possibility is that, if a woman does write about sexual perversion, she runs the risk of her stuff being labelled as erotica."
I believe that her publishers would probably advertise any such publication as an 'erotic novella,' since that would get more sales than 'perverted female author.'
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