[HARD CONTACT] Chapter 2: FINIIIIISHEDDDD
Nov. 16th, 2025 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamuzzyAND ZEE FINISHED WITH THE BLOGGING CHAPTER 2 YEEYYYY!!! It turned out, my comfort activity for the weekend was reading and blogging instead of mindlessly gaming.
Yesterday I had a very bad experience on tumblr, because KT came up again regarding the topic of misogyny and I think this also made me bury myself in blogging, because if I didn't, I would have reacted to these posts. I think when I started blogging about the books first time years ago, my primary goal was to find my own answers to these questions as well: is the book really as misogynistic or anti-Jedi as it is said to be? And the more I delve into the English version, the more I come to the conclusion that hating on this book and the author is a community-building event in which I simply cannot and I am not willing to participate just to make people like me or my blog more.
Because the more I read, the more I realize that this book must be read CAREFULLY. It truly challenges your literacy, nothing is spoonfed to you, nothing had to be taken at face value. Narrator is just not present in this story, because the characters are the narrators. Ultimate case of unreliable narrators.
Also this notion of "women who reads these books will suffer emotional damage" is the most fucking misogynystic take I've ever read. Because you will admit that you find women fragile little things who have to be protected from harmful media, and that is just one step from controlling what media women should read. You want Handmaid's Tale become a reality? This is how you get Handmaid's Tale becoming a reality.
Anyway. Ultimately I'm here for lorehunting and for the characters, first and foremost. One another reason I moved my metas and bookblogging into this separate blog, because I don't want to be distracted what actually is the thing that makes me interested and invested in these books.
Ahhh this turned out really ranty, I'm so sorry. But that post really pissed me off. People just cannot be normal about women.
See you at chapter 3!
Yesterday I had a very bad experience on tumblr, because KT came up again regarding the topic of misogyny and I think this also made me bury myself in blogging, because if I didn't, I would have reacted to these posts. I think when I started blogging about the books first time years ago, my primary goal was to find my own answers to these questions as well: is the book really as misogynistic or anti-Jedi as it is said to be? And the more I delve into the English version, the more I come to the conclusion that hating on this book and the author is a community-building event in which I simply cannot and I am not willing to participate just to make people like me or my blog more.
Because the more I read, the more I realize that this book must be read CAREFULLY. It truly challenges your literacy, nothing is spoonfed to you, nothing had to be taken at face value. Narrator is just not present in this story, because the characters are the narrators. Ultimate case of unreliable narrators.
Also this notion of "women who reads these books will suffer emotional damage" is the most fucking misogynystic take I've ever read. Because you will admit that you find women fragile little things who have to be protected from harmful media, and that is just one step from controlling what media women should read. You want Handmaid's Tale become a reality? This is how you get Handmaid's Tale becoming a reality.
Anyway. Ultimately I'm here for lorehunting and for the characters, first and foremost. One another reason I moved my metas and bookblogging into this separate blog, because I don't want to be distracted what actually is the thing that makes me interested and invested in these books.
Ahhh this turned out really ranty, I'm so sorry. But that post really pissed me off. People just cannot be normal about women.
See you at chapter 3!
