elizabitchtaylor:professorsparklepants:nineteencallme:dolorimeter:woody allen, the irredeemable cree
elizabitchtaylor:professorsparklepants:nineteencallme:dolorimeter:woody allen, the irredeemable creep whose obvious misogyny was misinterpreted as creative genius by the college-boy mentality. #gosh i wonder why sylvia plath’s poetry is important to young women when we’re bombarded with so much misogynistic literature written by ~the greats~ of the 20th century #if you want to talk about highly romanticized and overrated writers we can talk about bukowski hemingway kerouac ginsberg and so on #who were not only basic writers but were also vile people irl #i don’t understand how people can idolize pedophiles and wife beaters and then mock people who like plath? ~fionaapplesOh wow yes, let’s talk about how Plath’s struggle with motherhood and desire for bodily autonomy aren’t relatable to a college-age teenage girl. Let’s talk about how teenage girls are twice as likely to develop depression as their male counterparts. Let’s talk about how countless other men have had their deaths romanticized beyond belief without any question, but the second women grasp onto someone they’re shot down as silly and overly invested.It’s ~interesting~ how there are tons of jokes about Sylvia Plath (and Virginia Woolf) committing suicide, but none about Ernest Hemingway or David Foster Wallace -- source link