For me, shitty style / lazy writing make me put a book down immediately. I was raised on the worship of style you find in writers like Flaubert or Nabokov (who also happened to have deplorable political views) and I can’t shake it.

Others commented here recently that making every female character in a story into a sex object is a bad thing.

What are some reasons you’ll put a book down after you’ve spent at least a little time giving it a try?

  • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    yeah it's pretty common to refer to wife as mujer or mi mujer

    Hispanic culture is pretty chauvinistic lol (but don't let the right wingers know that, unless they're Franco stans already)