#wrongly

She literally isn't doing anything 💔

V wrongly accused because he is animal lover..😂😂😹😹

i just realized.

i never ever ever included jaime wearing reading glasses in we make the rules.

But.

I’m seventy pages in and already I have issues with the way he describes the relationship between men and women. Not in the superior/inferior way, but in the sensual/objectifying way.

One of the characters, Cecilia, undresses herself to her underwear - for entirely non-sexual purposes - in the vicinity of Robbie, a young man of around her age. They’ve known each other since their youth. After this incident, Robbie is lying naked on his bed, thinking about it. His thoughts are that before, he had thought she was horse-like, but now, he sees her beauty.

Next, he ponders why Cecilia could have been angry at him, and he thinks that her anger may have been used to guise her ‘unconscious desire’ for him, and that she had wanted to show him her beauty and ‘bind him to her’.

Now, these quotes may seem innocuous enough, but they are at the root of a bigger problem in our society, namely, as I said before, the objectifying and sexualising of non-sexual actions of women. These few thoughts of Robbie show some kind of belittling view on women, it describes women as seductive vixens that want nothing more than a man lusting after them.

And sure, these are the thoughts of a young man in a book, these are the thoughts of a character. But that’s a distinction that is difficult to make. When reading the book as a book and not looking at it critically enough, one might start to think that these reasoning are normal.

Sure, you could say that I’m overreacting, and that I’m reading too much into it, but it’s a reoccuring irritation of mine: most often, these scenes of young men pondering the underlying viciousness of women, are written by men, and lately I don’t feel right reading them anymore. It’s starting to bother me, the unthinking negative portrayal of women in men’s literature.