Feminist Publishers: Force Men to Read Women’s Lit

disposable_human · 2011-05-31T22:51:09+00:00

Was I the only freshman in high school to think To Kill a Mockingbird was a crappy, plodding book?

Pretty much all of the books I was required to read in high school were shit. Catcher in the Rye? I'm already an angsty little shit. Why do I need to read an uninteresting account of another one?

1984 was pretty decent though. Despite how Orwell couldn't decide between preaching and telling a story, so he quit one halfway to do the other. He should have had two main characters, one captured and one free. Both learning the same things by either experience or being gloated to. Animal Farm did it right.

The article is right. Assigned readings are almost universally trash.

leenucks · 2011-06-01T00:03:04+00:00

I'd recommend reading the five short playwrights of Sarah Kane, those should be pretty interesting for students ^{_^}

PhysicsPhil · 2011-06-05T07:42:52+00:00

To be fair, they probably actually just want men to buy women's lit, and if they were in the business of selling men's lit, or black lit, or whatever, they'd say that everyone else should read that too.

Title	Feminist Publishers: Force Men to Read Women’s Lit
Author	wfprice
Upvotes	10
Comments	5
Date	May 31, 2011 7:28 PM UTC (15 years ago)
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