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Men Who Don’t Know Women: On Unlearning the Lessons of “Dick Lit” (lithub.com)

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[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Back that wild assertion up with some evidence friend.

[–] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

“My source is that I made it the fuck up!”

[–] Leon@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

It's in the article you linked? Her main character is by her own description a one-dimensional self involved caricature, implicitly as a mirror to Joelle van Dyne. Honestly the whole article's got really nasty overtones, but that's sadly the norm these days.