The wandering eyes of unsatisfied women

I kick off a new series at The Spearhead analyzing literature with a Roissyspheric look at Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. A snippet:

If the amount of outrage and vitriol directed at something is correlated with its truthfulness, Madame Bovary was one of the most unpleasantly honest novels of the nineteenth century. When Flaubert’s seminal work was first published in 1856, public prosecutors charged him with “outrage to public morality and religion,” which lead to one of the most famous obscenity trials in literary history. Flaubert was acquitted of all charges the following year, and Madame Bovary went on to secure its place in the canon of Western literature. What about this little novel so upset the sensibilities of the French morality police? Quite simply, Madame Bovary laid bare the true nature of woman to an audience that had become dulled with Victorian sentimentalism. In particular, Flaubert exposed the nature of female infidelity and the role men play in fostering it.

Read and comment over there.

And if you haven’t weighed in on my open thread on the fundamentals of game, now’s a great time to do so. I’ll be writing a post based on my thoughts and the best responses later this week. Your opinion matters…at least this time.