@wigglytuffitout what the fuck since when is enjoying romantic comedies a critical point of being a feminist

where do you get these ideas

who the fuck are these people

@InspectorCaracal she's a very important feminist figure for her work and who she was and i'm glad i was made to read some of her works!

but also hand on heart i would rather eat one of her novels than ever read one ever again.

i am also a bad feminist because virginia woolfe's writing makes me want to jump out of the window for how fuckin longwinded it is and bores me to absolute tears lmao

they're very much both lauded as feminist authors but also Oh God Never Again I'm Outie

@wigglytuffitout yes but being a bad feminist would be discounting the importance of their work

whether or not you LIKE it is super irrelevant??

@InspectorCaracal it's definitely one of these things that's probably 90% in my head

but feminist circles talkin' about literature gush a lot over austen and i'm just like Oh God No

@wigglytuffitout like I don't recommend you try reading Austen's books again because I think the genre is just inimical to you, but the absolute best part of her books imo is how at least 90% of the events and characters exist as extremely on-the-nose social satire

sadly, a lot of the impact of the satire has lessened over the centuries, I think, because while the represented human nature is constant, the specific societal quirks and issues represented have changed a lot

@InspectorCaracal honestly getting professors teaching that part is the spoonful of sugar that made the medicine go down for me LMAO

it was still a relief to move on to other books though. ....tbh i feel the same way about most epistilary novels but at least very few people go out there stanning for Pamela these days (as the Pamela stan wars were already long fought)

(also reading about the heated battles at fancy balls in the Pamela stan wars made that go down easier too lol)

@wigglytuffitout *reads the wikipedia synopsis of Pamela*

...that sounds like I would enjoy it if it's well-written

WAIT

HARP

okay if you just hate eistilary novels in their entirety as a format then this won't be your cup of tea but if it's specifically the eternity of Misunderstandings and you enjoy Social Politics then I HAVE

A RECOMMENDATION FOR YOU

@InspectorCaracal honestly i'm not against them wholesale as a concept

but pamela is. odious. it's incredibly odious. it's odious in the I AM A DUDE AND I AM WRITING A STORY OF A VIRTUOUS WOMAN AND BY VIRTUE I MEAN SHE'S GONNA PUT UP WITH A MAN BEING AWFUL TO HER CONSTANTLY AND THEN AS REWARD FOR WETHERING THE STORM HE WILL CHANGE INTO A GOOD GUY THRU THE POWER OF HER VIRTUOUS TITTIES so like trust me, please don't bother lmao

@wigglytuffitout BUT PLEASE ENJOY THIS OTHER STORY WHICH IS IN FACT WELL-WRITTEN albeit incomplete

http://lucyweaver.net/tapestry/2007/09/12/water-day/

it is by @Wsteria