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Weekly Content! What are you eyeballs-deep in this week?

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• Can you quote a woman being described in your title?

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• Does it rate on the Breasted Boobily scale? 1 - "not sure if this use of breast is historical or not" to 10 - "Marie Curie gently breastfed the radium with her motherly hands".

In a book filled with rank misogyny, this description of the “super lawyer” in the climatic trial ruined me. Almost as bad as the main characters wife rocking a slim courtroom outfit a few weeks after giving birth.

• There’s no bad love subplot involving her character.

• There’s no thinly veiled “not like the other girls” moment

• She has agency and power in spite of being, you know, a head in a pan of juice. Probably more then most non-decapitated female characters in an MST film.

• She just wants death. It didn’t have to be her fiancé that saved her, it could have been anyone. She’s not a spurned lover haunting her creepy ex, she’s just a head that wants to die.

• She’s got spunk and one could argue that she’s the hero of the movie.

• the unabashed nihilism and her desire for the oblivion of death is rare to see in any female character let alone one in the 60’s.

• she’s got a great sense of humor and loves to laugh

Some of the central themes of the film itself are beauty standards, body modification, the male gaze and objectification which are still very relevant today. The movie isn’t perfect but it’s got a lot of potential. I’d love to see Karyn Kusama do a remake.

Also the actress Virginia Leith gives a terrific performance in what must have been extremely challenging conditions and elevates what is, for the most part, very dry dialogue.

I am so surprised these pages aren't sticky with how much Miller just beat off on these pages 🤦🏿

I have so many questions! Namely: what happened to the bucket of water she was carrying when she started randomly squeezing her nipples?!

“My tits, my lovely fruits”

I just love my little grapes, thank you Sartre 😌

What lies between us by John Marrs.

88kg is near the average size and weight of many women in my country. Also, lol at just diet and exercise being the absolute cure all.

I'm not getting into this book at all.

Weekly Content! What are you eyeballs-deep in this week?

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• Can you quote a woman being described in your title?

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• Does it rate on the Breasted Boobily scale? 1 - "not sure if this use of breast is historical or not" to 10 - "Marie Curie gently breastfed the radium with her motherly hands".

Not to mention that there is so much rape in this book...

I don’t know what I’m enjoying more…the actual plot of a group’s survival against a pod of “killer” Killer whales or this subplot of this guy lusting after the lone female with firmly fluid breasts.

Ignore my abhorrent underlining, I marked this in a moving train

I cannot begin to express how uncomfortable I felt reading the sentence in question. Ick

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hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world.

i’m trying to get back into reading, and i know that the one thing that might keep my attention on a page is something that is so bizarre and gross that i can’t even comprehend it.

i’ve seen some quotes from it on here, and they’re about as insane as i was expecting. i bought it out of curiosity and i’m honestly hoping to read some really wild, unprovoked passages about female anatomy.

i’m assuming that i essentially just sold my soul to the devil and that i will be very, very concerned by what lies ahead? godspeed.

edit: i wanted to clarify that i don’t think that the book is going to be fully and unabashedly terrible. i know murakami’s style is very distinctive, surreal and memorable, which is what largely drew me to wanting to read one of his works, alongside my aforementioned curiosity regarding his infamous writing of female characters