THE CASUAL VACANCY
In which we discover that JK Rowling, having spawned a totally adult, totally mature novel, still can't fucking write and for some reason there's a lot of creepy, gross male-gazey descriptions--including ones of women thinking about their own bodies. Rowling, the great feminist.
"(as opposed to her splendid breasts and that miraculously unguarded vagina" #casualvacancy- "She had a way of moving that moved him as much as music, which was what moved him most of all" #casualvacancy
- "Together he and Fats had become connoisseurs of silicone-enhanced breasts, enormous, taut and round." #casualvacancy
- "her big brown-nippled breasts hanging off her narrow rib cage like bowling balls, thin, shiny purple lines under each" #casualvacancy
- "You could almost tell how they would feel, looking at them: firm, as if there were a football underneath the skin" #casualvacancy
- "in her fantasy she had omitted to put on the matching camisole that concealed her deep canyon of cleavage" #casualvacancy
- even female characters describe themselves through the male gaze in #casualvacancy cc @KateElliottSFF
- I can't wait until I encounter a character of color in #casualvacancy, if there's even any
- ‘Uhhlll … uhhlll … CUNTING THING! You fucking do it! You! You’ve got pissy little girl’s fingers!’ #casualvacancy this is very RS Bakker
- "Still, when alone with Andrew, Fats concurred wholeheartedly that Simon was a Grade A, 24-carat cunt." #casualvacancy
- I don't understand, all I'm trying to do is share the good stuff! come on guys, who doesn't want free copies of #casualvacancy?
I have to close twitter because @requireshate is quoting #casualvacancy and it's fucking terrible.- "She imagined herself nineteen, slender-waisted again, taut curves in the right places, and a strong flat stomach of her own" #casualvacancy
- "She vividly recalled how it felt to sit on a young man’s lap in those shorts, with big hands around her lithe waist" #casualvacancy
- is there a single occasion in #casualvacancy where a woman doesn't think about herself in creepy male-gazey sexist way?
@foxvertebrae You just wait. Soon @requireshate will be whispering Selected Quotes of #CasualVacancy in your ear. While you sleep.- @foxvertebrae Then you will wake up, and behold the sunrise, and say, “Hey, that EXACT SAME SHADE is the same as my nipples.” @requireshate
