Wolfe: Misogynist or Realist?

don doggett · 19 Oct 2006, 07:03 · from 2006-October.txt.gz

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From: kingwukong at yahoo.com (don doggett)
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:03:38 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Wolfe: Misogynist or Realist?
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--- Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I AM saying that I have come to find the sheer
> quantity
> of violence against women in his narratives
> disturbing,

But not one iota as disturbing as the true acts of
violence against women perpetuated daily in the world.
Heck man, two women were killed by abusive
spouses/boyfriends within a year on the street I lived
on as a teenager on and I've called the cops twice on
a neighbor who was beating up his girlfriend just this
year. It's definitely a literary obsession of Wolfe's
but that's a writer's job, to push and then push
harder. Good for Wolfe for disturbing you, and better
for you for being disturbed. Perhaps too, there is a
misidentification of chauvanism with misogyny? Just
thinking out loud.

Don

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