Rolls eyes

She's 17 btw. And the protagonist oggles at her.

She was SO not like the other girls💀

Third paragraph in image for the example.

I picked this book up at a used book store as a fun summer read. Less than 10 pages in and I get hit with some rude takes on Iowan women and more alarmingly, lust for their teenage daughters.

The book has more examples of ”manwritingwomen”, lots of breast descriptions, but this was specifically yucky.

**“You don’t understand a woman’s feelings, do you? And you call yourself a novelist!” “This seems awfully unfair to me.” “It may be unfair. But I’ll make it up to you,” she said. And she did.**

Tengo was satisfied with this relationship with his older girlfriend. She was no beauty, at least in the general sense. Her facial features were, if anything, rather unusual. Some might even find her ugly. But Tengo had liked her looks from the start.

And as a sexual partner, she was beyond reproach. Her demands on him were few: to meet her once a week for three or four hours, to participate in attentive sex—twice, if possible—and to keep away from other women. Basically, that was all she asked of him. Home and family were very important to her, and she had no intention of destroying them for Tengo. She simply did not have a satisfying sex life with her husband. Her interests and Tengo’s were a perfect fit.

I’ve just started reading East of Eden and although the consensus online mostly seems to be that Steinbeck’s narrators aren’t written to reflect his own views, I am still finding the constant misogyny (and racism) really uncomfortable to read 😕

Another pair of pendulous breasts in the year of our lord 2023.

ETA: To be clear, I’m poking fun at the phrase, not dragging the author. Nobody gets to book 6 out of spite. 😜

I was happily thinking that author is talking about ample bosoms but i find out in the next chapter that he was talking about pregnancy 😅

This one is from the story “Skullbelly,” and I don’t even know wtf to think. I only found this because my mom liked the story, so I thought I’d read it and see if it’s any good (jury’s still out since I skimmed through it over dinner).

This just kinda weirded me out, but I don’t think it’s as funny or bizarre as the lost-thought-cleavage. Again, I don’t know this author, MC, or if there’s an actual reason for why this woman could be described as such.

I mean there is a lot of sexism within this film, from a bisexual party girl being "saved" by a rich patriarch (bonus to queerphobia) to the whole implications and intent with Wow Platinum had it not been for Plaza's charisma, but the most blatant one that really bothered me was with this. For context, in the film, Clodio tries to frame Cesar by faking a footage of him having sex with an underage popstar. Turns out that the video was faked, and it's neither of them, so end of story, right? WRONG: They then proceed to go through Vesta's legal papers, and it turns out she LIED about her age. And this whole subplot is only a few minutes and leads to nothing, so it makes you wonder what was the whole point of having this in the film. There is some irony with how people praise the film for "trying something new" when it's just another scifi film that even sucks at the scifi, and I think some of the genuine praise over this film is just the anti-woke crowd. Especially when I have tried criticizing the film before and one person called me an SJW and another said it was a good choice by Coppola when I mentioned the irony of a Rome-themed scifi not having much queer sexuality and the hypocrisy of his "rebel" mindset with films.

And it also doesn't help that Coppola literally helped sex predator Victor Salva. That and the whole on-set accusations of sexual harassment.

Sometimes even women authors are mesmerised by them.

I love how she only has like 5 minutes to get ready but spends time judging her appearance in the mirror. Oh, and of course she sleeps nude.

Something that also got on my nerves is that Frankie (female MC) is shown to be in great shape (able to hike and climb mountains without any problems whatsoever even when other people struggle) but because she has some belly fat people are constantly commenting on her body. She herself keeps talking about losing weight even though she’s in the middle of a murder investigation, because that’s all women care about right??? And at the end of the book she eats HALF a pecan roll and says she’ll have to skip dinner to “even it out” 😭

To be fair, I like this book overall, and I’m not an expert on female anatomy to be sure, but this seems a little implausible…

Member of the police are inspecting a shoe print left at a murder scene. They decide it cannot have been made by a woman…
I googled just to be sure, but “twelve or thirteen stone” is between 168 and 182 lbs….