What are your thoughts on this short story published in the recent issue of Harper’s Magazine? It’s a short read, less than five minutes. https://harpers.org/archive/2025/09/girl-talk-weike-wang-story-sauna/“Girl Talk” by Weike Wang
>The in-between woman is not.unholy cringe
Jesus christ its terrible
>>24715021Buy an ad, Envie Wang
>sentenced to diaspora literature.jpg
>>24715021>She would rather look at a naked woman than a naked man.Wow, she is literally me.
What did the author want me to get from this? I honestly have no idea. Is it supposed to be a reflection on how the words and worries of modern western women are insignificant and self-sabotaging?
>The in-between woman is hypervigilant when she is in a room with only white womensomeone post the asian diaspora fem lit meme
>>24715021>Weike WangWanky Wang
>and get this: as i describe these mundane non-events, i periodically remind the reader about my very important non-white victimhood>that's brilliant, wookie wang. nobody's done that before
>The in-between woman has a nice corporate job in a nice corporate office. She got this job through extensive education and seven rounds of interviews. But she knows that there are beautiful women out theremogged
>She would rather watch two women make love than two men (which she has admitted to no one, as she worries this will make her seem bigoted). Anyway, she would like to admire the younger one’s breasts at close range. Admire, not ogle.Shit's so fucking funny.
>>24715101it reads like a straight A nerd who is resentful of Stacy
let us know when she can go two pages without mentioning vaginas or feminism
>>24715106When that’s the subject of the story in question, how is that a fault?
>>24715101>M'lady I was not ogling your breasts, merely admiring them.>M'lady why are you walking away?
nonwhite people just shouldn't live in white countries. it's bad for everyone. even if they're too wimpy to stab you in the neck they'll just sit there and endlessly boil with resentment about not being white. this poor retard can't even say her own name out loud without piercing asspain.
>>24715111The Incel/Orientaless horseshoe is fascinating
>>24715110>why is meandering, artless, utterly stereotypical vagina-gazing story #5309 a bad thing?truly a mystery for the ages
I will not give Harper's a single page view. I will not support their feminist circlejerk.
>>24715021Is this a parody lol
>>24715219I think it must be. Harper’s editors have always been world class. If you think a Harper’s piece has no value, you’re missing something.
>>24715214who asked
>>24715221>Harper’s editors have always been world classmight I direct your attention to their September 2025 cover, also on the same page?
>>24715228What about it? I saw the cover first when my copy arrived in the mail.
>>24715219>a state indoctrinated NPC being self-awarejajajajajaja haha wow
>>24715235What?
don't @ me reet
>>24715228Almost 80 years later and still seething about their communist spy being exposed. God damn.
>>24715228Is that cover AI?
>>24715323Harper’s is part of the HAA, they’ve promised not to use AI
>>24715225You. Begging for my attention.
>>24715228What an ugly cover. Looks like something I could make in about 5 minutes in Photoshop. Especially the really basic, Helvetica-looking font used for the title of the main article. What's next, Comic Sans?
>>24715957You make ugly shit?
>>24715021>storyIt was unremarkable. Suited for Harper's -- realist, liberal values, liberal guilt, socially conscious but inert. Didn't care for the writer tying the story's themes to a brick and throwing them at my head over and over.>Weike WangWould give her a white baby.
>>24715021tl;dr: Author seethes about being Asian and wishes she could "have it easy" like the "beautiful" white women she cares so much about.
>>24715957Completely agree. Looks like the covers my boss makes at the shitty small publisher I work at. Just a bunch of Adobe stock photos thrown together according to a gimmicky concept. Uses the same ubiquitous sans serif too.
>>24715021>>24715021this is just ANOTHER case of diaspora second/third generation falling into that bizarre race complex they always get
>>24716115So much "asian woman diaspora literature" boils down to this>I'm asian and I love white boys >but I shouldn't because they're racist>but it's racister they don't love me back>white boys just want Stacy >I hate Stacy because I can't be Stacy Can they get a new topic already?
>>24715957That looks nothing like helvetica
>>24715021It's not that bad. Although you can be a white man and feel this, to be treated like a "more important person's" passive audience/agentless co-conspirator. It's a strange thing to have to endure all the time and if you think a nonwhite person can live any part of their life and not have to experience this sort of shit you're insane.And if you write about it, then vapid, bored chuds lose their fucking minds on the internet and project their obsession with race onto you.And if you think you can go a day or even a single hour without the influence of a vagina, even a completely hypothetical vagina, on your thoughts and actions, and this woman can't, then you are deprived of any shred of self awareness.Most women who admitted to me they watch porn stick to lesbian porn. Sex with men for women I believe is completely about tropes, and not about the aesthetics of the male body. The male body is not beautiful.It's a pretty aware and honest account of female subjectivityI think her use of raison d'etre was a bit awkward and misapplied. Should have just said reason. raison d'etre is more like, an inextricable part of your desire. The in-between woman's raisin d'etre is buying everything she wants, and the corporate job is a means to that, the job doesn't have a reason for being that sort of doesn't make sense.This isn't puke-inducing self aggrandizing feminism, it's actually pretty lucid.
>>24716411its ideas and themes are lucid, which is the story's entire problem -- everything it says is very on the nose, very on the surface, very "HERE IS THE POINT HERE IS THE THEME HERE IS WHAT I AM SAYING LOOK AT ME PROBLEMATIZING CONTEMPORARY WHITE FEMINISM." just boring and predictable art that's only transgressive to /pol/tards because it's about sexism/racism
>>24715021Why does she seem to resent her husband because she's self-sufficient? It's a weird aside from what seems to be the broader point of being put upon and feeling like she has to agree with what some old broad in a sauna has to say
>>24715021I took a look, turned 360 and walked directly to the next article. Nini's story was pretty good
>>24715021Embarrassing. Again, ethnicellas are nothing compared to today's vanguard of girl-writers of Ivdæo-Catholick or Evropean stock; e.g. Honor Levy, Sophie Kemp, or picrel.
>>24715104I mean, yeah. That's the point of the story. It's about what it feels like to experience racial resentment, know you're experiencing racial resentment, know you shouldn't feel it, and still feel resentment anyway
>>24716591picrel IS honor levy
It was honestly too dull for me to have any type of strong reaction.
>>24716728You don’t feel insulted by having your time wasted?
>>24716685My mistake, Ms Levi
>>24716411>It's a strange thing to have to endure all the time and if you think a nonwhite person can live any part of their life and not have to experience this sort of shit you're insane.it's actually just a self-inflicted neurosis particular to america. i know several non-whites living in an extremely white country, way more "outnumbered" than they would be in the us, and they find these american racial narratives borderline incomprehensible. you have to be trained in this insanity from an early age.
>>24716100She looks like the type of person who is outwardly the bubbly college student liberal type but will let you do incredibly degrading things to her in the bedroom and enjoy every minute of it.
We will never really know whether the problem with women is that they are biologically and neurologically inferior to men, because the primary problem is that they have no selection pressures, no social mechanisms that progressively sift the gold from the turds. Women like this whinging narcissist gook should never be published, she should have been filtered out by some kind of filter years ago and progressively dissuaded from speaking until she betters herself, until she becomes less retarded. Instead she's confidently publishing "Like: Is this good feminism or bad feminism? Should I have 5 Tinder hookups or only 4?" and other women are enabling her.Women routinely get away with expressing things the male equivalent of which would get you beaten to death by your fellow men. Women get away with saying, loudly in public and professional spaces, the female equivalent of a man saying "My mom says I'm the coolest kid here, so you should all listen to me!" If a man said the latter, all his male friends would ritually carve him into pieces and mail the parts of his body to the four corners of the empire. But if a woman says "Um, a WOMAN is talking, so listen up! I have a Master's degree you know!" other women will enable it even though it's 3-4x as cringe as the "my mom says I'm cool" thing. Minorities are similar. That's why black women are capable of truly insane levels of cringe. "Honey, just EXISTING as a black woman every day makes me a superhero!" There isn't even a male equivalent for that. The male equivalent of saying that would be being the "peenus weanus" guy in real life.
>>24716812Many, many, many such cases. It is a truth universally acknowledged that the more feminist liberal in the streets the more perverted in the sheets
