This chapter reminds me of LKH saying that she didn't base any characters on real-life people because she didn't base characters' appearance on real-life people. Personalities, yes, but she thinks that since her characters don't look the same as people she knows, they aren't based on them. Because appearance is all that matters, I guess. Especially hair. I do not understand why she is not embarrassed by all the hair description.
cops didn't like you styling your hair on the job
So they're like pretty much everyone else then, barring a few jobs in which one's appearance is central. LKH is so out of touch it is scary.
Women are less likely to be active abusers, but when they are, it's usually more violent.
The "women are more violent when they abuse" part is 100% bullshit. LKH is making up this lie, it's part of her misogynistic, macho-worshiping worldview in which men are pathetic widdle woobies and women are violent and depraved. It's like how in Dancing, she claimed that men wouldn't leer at women and that women's "energy" was more violent in strip clubs. Complete and total bullshit.
he wasn't the tallest guy waiting for me in the hallway, but he was the biggest
Nicky is slightly wider than a queen-sized mattress, so yeah.
It made us closer than just dating ever would have
One cannot be "close" to someone over whom one has complete control and who does not have any sort of personality. Saying she's "close" to Nicky is like thinking you're close to a Real Doll, except at least in the case of a doll, there isn't a real person on the other end to hurt.
Cops usually thought policewomen were only two things: bitches or sluts. I had a reputation for both.
Eesh. Anita just hates everything except big-dicked sex toys, doesn't she? And Jean-Claude.
Also, gee, I wonder why Anita would have that reputation. Usually "bitch" just means "not a doormat" and "slut" means anything the insulter wants it to mean (like "wouldn't date me"), but I don't think that's what's going on here. A competent author could show that the reason a character is called them is that other people fear her and want to take away her power. But over and over, all Anita does is insist that she isn't a *misogynist term*; all those OTHER women are *misogynist terms*, but not Anita. And I'm sure Anita also has a reputation as an airhead, because she is one.
LKH is jealous of cops and military too
I think you're absolutely right. I also think something similar is going on with her treatment of men, but I haven't figured out how to articulate it yet. Actually, she seems extremely jealous of other women as well.
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Date: 2013-10-07 07:02 pm (UTC)cops didn't like you styling your hair on the job
So they're like pretty much everyone else then, barring a few jobs in which one's appearance is central. LKH is so out of touch it is scary.
Women are less likely to be active abusers, but when they are, it's usually more violent.
The "women are more violent when they abuse" part is 100% bullshit. LKH is making up this lie, it's part of her misogynistic, macho-worshiping worldview in which men are pathetic widdle woobies and women are violent and depraved. It's like how in Dancing, she claimed that men wouldn't leer at women and that women's "energy" was more violent in strip clubs. Complete and total bullshit.
he wasn't the tallest guy waiting for me in the hallway, but he was the biggest
Nicky is slightly wider than a queen-sized mattress, so yeah.
It made us closer than just dating ever would have
One cannot be "close" to someone over whom one has complete control and who does not have any sort of personality. Saying she's "close" to Nicky is like thinking you're close to a Real Doll, except at least in the case of a doll, there isn't a real person on the other end to hurt.
Cops usually thought policewomen were only two things: bitches or sluts. I had a reputation for both.
Eesh. Anita just hates everything except big-dicked sex toys, doesn't she? And Jean-Claude.
Also, gee, I wonder why Anita would have that reputation. Usually "bitch" just means "not a doormat" and "slut" means anything the insulter wants it to mean (like "wouldn't date me"), but I don't think that's what's going on here. A competent author could show that the reason a character is called them is that other people fear her and want to take away her power. But over and over, all Anita does is insist that she isn't a *misogynist term*; all those OTHER women are *misogynist terms*, but not Anita. And I'm sure Anita also has a reputation as an airhead, because she is one.
LKH is jealous of cops and military too
I think you're absolutely right. I also think something similar is going on with her treatment of men, but I haven't figured out how to articulate it yet. Actually, she seems extremely jealous of other women as well.