Thursday, April 15, 2021

the quest for manliness essentially right wing

Such protagonists, of course, appeal particularly to male writers; Theroux suggested why in a 1983 essay that amounts to a cry of pain, finding “the quest for manliness essentially right wing, puritanical, cowardly, neurotic and fueled largely by a fear of women. It is also certainly philistine. There is no book hater like a Little League coach. … For many years I found it impossible to admit to myself that I wanted to be a writer … because being a writer was incompatible with being a man.”

- Paul Theroux’s New Novel Takes On Life’s Crashing Waves

вот и Paul Theroux покаялся, чтоб не отменили wokerati

забавно, что в статье wokerati на слове woke нет гиперссылки. само слово в словаре присутствует, но описание очень короткое: The act of being very pretentious about how much you care about a social issue. см. также Wiki

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