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History of Feminism

JHan

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8. Great observations .. I see Updike as a HemmingwayWannabe...

Reply to Squinch (Reply #7)

Thu Jul 27, 2017, 03:03 PM

Jul 2017

I'll admit I'm never able manage getting through any of his work - not for want of trying.. because it's just terrible.

This passage is from Witches of Eastwick ... which is supposed to be Updike's look at femininity or something.

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this gave me a good chuckle.. [View all] JHan Jul 2017 OP

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So many men out there who seem never to have met a woman. It's weird, no? Squinch Jul 2017 #2

makes you wonder doesn't it? JHan Jul 2017 #6

That's Updike? What book? Sort of not surprised. He came of age during the Squinch Jul 2017 #7

Great observations .. I see Updike as a HemmingwayWannabe... JHan Jul 2017 #8

Ah! Yeah. That was an awful book. Men seemed to love it. Squinch Jul 2017 #9

whoever wrote that shit mercuryblues Jul 2017 #3

..... JHan Jul 2017 #4

I went and read some reviews of the book mercuryblues Jul 2017 #10

the sexism is so rancid it permeates everything.. JHan Jul 2017 #11

If it ever took mercuryblues Jul 2017 #12

the irony is.. JHan Jul 2017 #13

How they think it is mercuryblues Jul 2017 #14

lol! JHan Jul 2017 #15

Why isn't the clitoris labeled? nt irisblue Jul 2017 #16

Because the drawing mercuryblues Oct 2017 #17

::snort:: irisblue Oct 2017 #18