• PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]M
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    20 hours ago

    Definitely not limited to Dick. But I think it's especially ironic because he's a great and incredibly imaginative writer in many ways and then is baffled when he tries to imagine a woman. And because his successes are widely lauded but people don't often mention his failures in this regard. I was actually thinking about this because I was talking with someone about Piers Anthony whose female characters are also insanely misogynistic, but his writing is also terrible and widely acknowledged to be problematic slop.

    But yes I completely agree with your analysis of how men are systematically discouraged from having empathy or understanding for women generally

    • Dessa [she/her]
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      20 hours ago

      I loved Piers Anthony as a child and I think that fucked me up for a long time

        • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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          11 hours ago

          Tbh I thought he was dead, but no

          He's still alive? I read some of his even weirder and more obscure books (they were all awful, both in content and also, like, just narrative structure and prose) 15 years ago and I thought he was dead even back then. I thought he was one of those old authors who didn't make it through the 90s or early 2000s.

            • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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              11 hours ago

              No, it was some weird Cold War allegory in space that I can't remember the title of, focused on a refugee from the Space Dominican Republic who became the popular dictator of Space America before being killed by a Yeti while hunting Space Nixon in the Space Soviet Union.

              Fuck, that sounds way more interesting than it actually is. It was all just dreary low sci-fi drama with a lot of extremely creepy relationships and problematic soapboxing about sexual mores, and the actual story beats are more just dumb and cringe than wacky and interesting.