Before you start screeching the same 4 names like a mantra, ask yourself this: where’s the female Dostoevsky? Where’s the woman who wrote anything on the level of Tolstoy, Kafka, or even Hemingway?Every time I look, women are either writing YA magic school clones, romance disguised as “literary fiction,” or smut with a sad quote on page 37 to trick book clubs into thinking it’s deep. Rowling is the only modern woman who wrote anything with cultural impact, and she had to write about wizards to do itBe honest: do women just not have the imagination or the mental depth to write anything beyond diary-entry prose and fanfiction-tier romance?
>>24821275>Where’s the woman who wrote anything on the level of TolstoyNot hard to find considering Tolstoy is ass
>>24821283Yeah, Tolstoy’s a slog to read and his moral preaching gets old fast, but you can’t really deny the impact.Even if you think he’s overrated, the guy basically defined a whole era of narrative realism and influenced everyone who came after. His fingerprints are all over modern literature.That said, can you actually name a single woman who’s had even close to that level of influence on the direction of literature itself?
>>24821275"The age of scorpius"looks inside goodsreads. 1.5 stars/ 77 reviews. Looks deeper, mostly women screeching about this. What's going on here?
>>24821275Austen, the Brontes and George Elliot are staples of classic literature. Shirley Jackson also mogs Kafka.
>>24821390The Brontë sisters 1 of their most well-known books is a romance novel, also Kafka >>>>> Shirley Jackson.
>>24821353Indie novelist somehow sold nearly 8k copies of this dumpster fire through pity marketing on TikTok. When the books finally got delivered, everyone realized it was absolute garbage. All the preorder money went to paying some artist instead of even one editor to fix the grammar or story inconsistencies. Meanwhile, other indie authors who actually put in hundreds of times more effort can barely move 30–50 copies are seething on YouTube and Tiktok on how this shit got so much money
>>24821275>hates women writers>cockgobbling Dostoyevskywhy does this happen in every thread like this.
>>24821466What can i say hes just that good of an author
I hate men
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>>24821476Yet you're a men
>>24821476Based femanon, now tell us your favorite female authors and which book of theirs you think is the best.
>>24821484Yes I hate myself. Not because I'm a man of course, I am an exceptional man. I hate myself for being so exceptional. Take notes.
>>24821488Ok, that was funny
>>24821275To write great fiction, one must learn to love their enemy. Women are superficial perfectionists (bratty and neurotic), they can get the ick from the smallest of flaws, and so are incapable of writing great fiction.They can write gorgeous prose, even brilliant short stories, but complex fiction seems impossible.They're much better at doing manga, it's a more aesthetic and rhythmical medium. Try Mushishi or 3-gatsu no Lion and tell me they aren't well written. (I recommend the anime adaptations.)
>>24821503Not saying that good female authors don't exist but most of them are in the romance genre, also loved 3- gatsu no Lion
>>24821516I actually think they suck at romance and do the "weird protagonist lives his life" genre better as seen in 3gatsu and Mushishi
>>24821525Well yes but they are all right in the romance genre not the best but all right, my problem with female authors is that you really can't find any good fantasy or sci-fi or truly dark novels
>>24821540Did you try Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star? I've read the beginning and it had a dark and existential approach compared to rest of what I've read by women. It's also well praised. I dropped it because I didn't think a woman could write wellthough.
>>24821292>That said, can you actually name a single woman who’s had even close to that level of influence on the direction of literature itself?Tolstoy's mom
>>24821275>where’s the female DostoevskyWoah, hold on right there, champ.Since when does Dostoevskij write real literature?>Tolstoy, Kafka, or even Hemingway?Can we get more basic than that?I can't believe those 4 authors are the entire english literature curriculum in american high schools.>anything with cultural impactThen it's shit... You think normalfaggots will be impacted by high IQ literature?Spongebob has more cultural impact than the Bible in current day 'Murica, does it also mean it's better?>picrelBuy an ad, Audra.
>>24821540>can't find any good fantasy or sci-fiEvery fucking time. Daily reminder: that's slop, not real literature.Anyway, check Lee Tanith's Birthgrave. You should like it.
>>24821567Hey I just mentioned those genres because they are so popular but the number of female authors that have written any good books in those genres is near 0
>>24821624>female authors that have written any good books in those genres is near 0I know like a couple female fantasy authors who still publish to this day and like a couple female scifi author, of which one writes only afrofuturism, anon. Outside that, I really can't name any other household names that are women.Anon, btw, those are not famous genres, and even if they were, they are still all dominated by men.Dan Brown is thriller, Ken Follett is historical fiction, Brandon Sanderson is fantasy, etc. Women have 2 genres which they dominate: romance and litfic.You read neither, so why would you care?Yeah, romance always pops up on the bestsellers list, but that's like watching the youtube trending videos to see what everyone is watching. It's just a bad metric to go off of.
Pathetic, fake question>Agree with me that women are inferior pleaseWhat is even the point? You aren't Men, the achievements of Men aren't yours. You're just some guy.I read the Lathe of Heaven recently and thought it was pretty good
>>24821663I just think those genres are bigger than thrillers, but I was just using them as examples. It’s not like I don’t read female authors—it’s just funny how most of their books seem mediocre, with only a few standing out in genres outside romance or litfic. Or is it just that women aren’t into those genres, or publishers don’t push female authors in them?
