she makes me so unsure of myself

i’m ordering a gun drink and you card me??

this was supposed to say gin drink

sometimes its like. i would love to not have to think about gender and misogyny all the time but on account of us living on the Gender and Misogyny Planet i cant do that. so

it's amazing the extent to which sally rooney's books make people short-circuit and end up with takes like "sally rooney is romantasy for people who think they're too good for romantasy"

i liked the two of her novels i have read (normal people and intermezzo), with some reservations, but it's so bizarre how she's just a discursive avatar for whatever people want to say about the book world/publishing/readers/the discourse/what is wrong with books right now when she really has a very specific oeuvre and is distinctly not trying to be everything to everyone. and this "romantasy" take somebody put on substack is clearly a reaction to the kind of conspicuous consumption vibe around being the type of person who reads sally rooney, the type of person who walks around with a branded tote bag of her book cover or whatever they were doing for her marketing, but none of that -- the marketing, the branding, the reactions to it -- has very much at all to do with the content of her work! it's all just very weird to me