ahkna

ahkna t1_j9f04hp wrote

Reply to Are there any books that you actually would want to see figuratively or literally burned? by [deleted]

This really horrible memoir by this woman who married a violent murderer Jason Staples who brutally beat his female roommate to death because she didn't want to have sex with him. The author called him a "gentle giant". She helped him by marrying him and moving him to a different city in Ontario, giving him some respectability, making people around her think he was a good man. He kidnapped, raped, and tortured two women the first weekend she went away after they got married.

The author proceeded to make every possible excuse for her rapist and murderer husband, cutting off people who thought she was making him out to be the biggest victim of his crimes, complaining about the lack of support for the spouses of rapists while insisting that when it was revealed that her husband had put video cameras in their bathrooms that she be the one who told the victims not the police or victim's services.

Oh, I forgot one of the worst parts. She actually quit her job as a guidance counsellor because the school board insisted on following proper safeguarding procedures and refused to tell her the identity of the teenage son of one of her husband's victims.

The entire book is a narcissistic screed of the highest order and it's a shame that she's used it to propel herself to the front various charities and movements.

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ahkna t1_j4q223q wrote

Reply to Why don’t I, as a woman, like books with female protagonists? by out_cyder

Sounds like you've got a lot of internalized sexism within yourself that you need to examine. A big part of being a woman in your 20s is starting to unlearn a lot of the sexism that has been fed to you.

Start asking yourself what it is about female protagonists you don't like and what it is about male protagonists you do like. Ask yourself what the differences between male authors and female authors are, then ask yourself why you've divided them that way.

A lot of people like to pretend that they're neutral, that they only like interesting stories, but they're often the ones with the largest prejudices and blindspots.

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