1) ARE THE GIRLS WHO ACTUALLY ARE LIKE THAT, NOT THE 'OTHER' GIRLS, HYPOTHETICAL OR REAL, THAT THEY HATE SO MUCH.
Ding ding ding! It's projection. And most guys see right though it, which is one reason why I end up feeling sorry for girls and women like that. I've always had an easier time making friends with boys than girls too (though not so much lately, thanks to the interwebs), but that's not because I'm better than other girls. Making friends with girls just took me a little longer than with boys. Also, my gaming hobby used to have at least twenty times as many men in it as women, or seem to have. Not any longer, thank goodness. And I am definitely not more of a guy. I have an extremely strong feminine gender identity. I hate when people act like liking video games, or cars, or sports, or guns, or etc., is a "guy" thing. Or that liking fashion and romance novels and etc. is a "girl" thing.
Also, that conversation starter from Laila is not the way women introduce themselves. LKH needs to get out more.
2) One of the good things about working with men was that they didn't do this shit.
Oh right, men never make nasty comments to women about their looks. Riiiiight. They do even in Anitaland, just to women who aren't Anita. And in Anitaland, men also think hunting and killing each other is the ultimate guy thing. I think I know which I prefer.
Re: all LKH's body snark, I'm "curvy" and feel insulted on my own behalf, and offended about the idea a woman must have a certain body shape to be a "real woman". And I've got a big round booty and my ancestry is completely northern European. LKH is terrible at biology.
3) LKH yoinked "pretty to think so" from Hemingway. "Isn't it pretty to think so" is the last line of The Sun Also Rises. Which, coincidentally, is one of those books I had to read for a class in college and hated with the passion of 10,000 suns. But that book is considered an American classic and that line is considered a very big deal by people who like the book. So LKH using the line over and over again without acknowledgment -- well, it's not quite plagiarism, but it's something icky.
4) I refuse to believe anyone in this world, especially someone who was trained to deal with the preternatural, is this sheltered concerning vampires.
This might be my biggest gripe with the books. Bigger than even the rape, because it breaks the entire premise of the books. Vampires and therians and such are supposed to always have existed, and yet the world is exactly like our world, just with vampires and such plopped into it. It makes no sense at all.
5) given that it's the norm for this series for everyone's appearance to be cataloged in minute detail
In Danse Macabre, after going on for interminable, tongue-bathing length about every man's appearance so far, LKH describes a Hispanic man by talking about all the knives he's carrying.
6) The pajamas... has LKH ever actually known a man? They don't tend to treat the women they're in relationships with solely as sex objects. I guess that's how Anita treats her men, though, so turnabout is fair play.
7) Anita's supposed to be all badass, and yet whines about how she's not sleeping on silk sheets and the room isn't well-appointed enough for her tastes. She is such a spoiled brat.
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Ding ding ding! It's projection. And most guys see right though it, which is one reason why I end up feeling sorry for girls and women like that. I've always had an easier time making friends with boys than girls too (though not so much lately, thanks to the interwebs), but that's not because I'm better than other girls. Making friends with girls just took me a little longer than with boys. Also, my gaming hobby used to have at least twenty times as many men in it as women, or seem to have. Not any longer, thank goodness. And I am definitely not more of a guy. I have an extremely strong feminine gender identity. I hate when people act like liking video games, or cars, or sports, or guns, or etc., is a "guy" thing. Or that liking fashion and romance novels and etc. is a "girl" thing.
Also, that conversation starter from Laila is not the way women introduce themselves. LKH needs to get out more.
2) One of the good things about working with men was that they didn't do this shit.
Oh right, men never make nasty comments to women about their looks. Riiiiight. They do even in Anitaland, just to women who aren't Anita. And in Anitaland, men also think hunting and killing each other is the ultimate guy thing. I think I know which I prefer.
Re: all LKH's body snark, I'm "curvy" and feel insulted on my own behalf, and offended about the idea a woman must have a certain body shape to be a "real woman". And I've got a big round booty and my ancestry is completely northern European. LKH is terrible at biology.
3) LKH yoinked "pretty to think so" from Hemingway. "Isn't it pretty to think so" is the last line of The Sun Also Rises. Which, coincidentally, is one of those books I had to read for a class in college and hated with the passion of 10,000 suns. But that book is considered an American classic and that line is considered a very big deal by people who like the book. So LKH using the line over and over again without acknowledgment -- well, it's not quite plagiarism, but it's something icky.
4) I refuse to believe anyone in this world, especially someone who was trained to deal with the preternatural, is this sheltered concerning vampires.
This might be my biggest gripe with the books. Bigger than even the rape, because it breaks the entire premise of the books. Vampires and therians and such are supposed to always have existed, and yet the world is exactly like our world, just with vampires and such plopped into it. It makes no sense at all.
5) given that it's the norm for this series for everyone's appearance to be cataloged in minute detail
In Danse Macabre, after going on for interminable, tongue-bathing length about every man's appearance so far, LKH describes a Hispanic man by talking about all the knives he's carrying.
6) The pajamas... has LKH ever actually known a man? They don't tend to treat the women they're in relationships with solely as sex objects. I guess that's how Anita treats her men, though, so turnabout is fair play.
7) Anita's supposed to be all badass, and yet whines about how she's not sleeping on silk sheets and the room isn't well-appointed enough for her tastes. She is such a spoiled brat.