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Post by mrsfawlty on Aug 15, 2022 14:52:45 GMT
I don't shed tears for a misogynist who calls his wife a "bad investment". Having received a huge amount of intensive therapy, including long term medication, as a result of many years of me and my mother being treated like sh1t by my misogynistic father, I have learned to forgive him. Throughout my life I never once wished violence to happen to him because it's disgusting and pointless. He was a pretty cruel husband and father but he and his fellow scientists discovered a Parkinson's Disease treatment that helped many thousands++++ of people to manage their condition in a way that made their symptoms that bit easier to cope with. As the great Joe E Brown said to Jack Lemmon's character in Some Like It Hot- "Nobody's Perfect!" |
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Post by notoriousmkg on Aug 15, 2022 15:51:26 GMT
I don't shed tears for a misogynist who calls his wife a "bad investment". Calling your partner a "bad investment" doesn't make the person a misogynist, or a misandrist, if the point is that they aren't pulling their weight in the relationship. I don't follow his work or comments in general, so has he actually said something that denigrated women as not being the equals of men? |
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Post by Sarzy on Aug 15, 2022 17:12:11 GMT
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Post by notoriousmkg on Aug 15, 2022 17:32:54 GMT
Fixed it!
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Post by czb on Aug 15, 2022 19:20:15 GMT
he's made some misogynistic comments in the press. i have no doubt he is a tool but that doesn't make him a crummy author. i still haven't read any of his work. for those of you who have, which book do you recommend?
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Post by sputnik on Aug 16, 2022 0:40:49 GMT
^^^
The satanic verses is pretty sublime, and also really funny in parts.
I also really loved the moor’s last sigh and midnight’s children, and they might be a better introduction to rushdie.
Shame and the ground beneath her feet are also among my favourites.
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Post by MsDark on Aug 16, 2022 12:05:56 GMT
I guess they're on okay terms now since Padma tweeted that she was relieved he's out of the woods and wished him swift healing.
I've been surprised this dude doesn't seem to be worried about going places after having to go into hiding for years when he got the fatwa put on him by the Ayatollah Khomeini. I mean, I know it's supposed to be lifted and all, but you know dude is probably gonna have a target on his back forever because of that.
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Post by dilligaf on Aug 16, 2022 19:44:19 GMT
I will never feel bad for misogynists. That doesn’t change the fact that he’s brilliant and has written some of the best novels of the last century. People are more than one thing but regardless of how you feel about him, you should be appalled by this attack on freedom of expression and speech. This is motivated by the same hate and bullshit as the Charlie Hebdo attack, and by people who are even more misogynistic. |
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Post by waterslide on Aug 16, 2022 21:40:33 GMT
I will never feel bad for misogynists. Are you seriously this obtuse? You are doubling down on the belief that it's justified for a religious zealot to stroll into a book lecture and nearly murder an author over their words? All I can glean from that is that you don't support freedom of speech, but you do support freedom of violence. |
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Post by notoriousmkg on Aug 16, 2022 21:49:14 GMT
I think there was a misogynist in one of the twin towers on 9/11.
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Post by sputnik on Aug 17, 2022 1:01:35 GMT
Yeah talk about missing the point…  |
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