We must be better readers!
>>25039911Men with this phenotype give me the ick
>>25039911Will I become a better man by reading those books?
>>25039931he look like a cross between a reditor and a truck driver.
>>25039911I can't stand this guy. I tried to watch a video and he and his boyfriend were just crying about how Cormac McCarthy is a pedophile. Does he make anything of value that I'm missing out on?
>>25039911i'm going to assume these are books written by w*men>>25039981oh of course he's a sodomite. woe to you for even knowing who he is
>>25039987It's not his literal boyfriend, they just both seem really emasculated to me so I called them gay as a term of derision.I do still feel shame for having watched what I did. These guys had that translator as a guest who complains about incels on 4chan harassing him.
>>25040001oh you so you're just another chuddie projecting his latent homosexuality onto others. gotcha.
>>25040014>noticing faggy behavior is gayAight
>>25039911>fat>le reddit beardOpinion discarded.>>25039981That's ironic because that type of beard only gained popularity in the West from images of "tacticool operators" in the Middle East who only had beards to blend in with the child-marrying and boy-raping Muslim men.
>>25039911>white trash truck driver wants to larp as refinedkek
>>25040044It's actually a costal elite faggot larping as a truck driver
>>25039911>Fragile nose >No brow>No jawline (or tactical beard)>Big bulbous headYou can instantly tell basedboys larping as tough guys.
>>25039911>>25039931>>25039981This kind of male reader is very ugly to see for me as well. There are several YouTubers, book reviewers, translators and other people who seem to know each other who enter this category, such as Clifford Lee Sergent, Andrew Merritt, Tony P, Max Lawton, the guys of the Books of Some Substance podcast, the guy from the WASTE Mailing List Youtube channel, etc. and they all seem to have several things in common when it comes to book taste.The most suspicious things is that they gravitate around an internet canon of modernist and post-modern authors which is somewhat tangent to the /lit/ 100, but with a sprinkle of Harold Bloom on it (Harold Bloom I see as a sort of patient zero of this kind of male). They all read big modernist or post-modern books by mostly male authors, usually tackling big philosophical and existential themes: Pynchon, McCarthy, DeLillo, Foster Wallace, Cartarescu, Krasnznahorkai, Bernhard, Joyce, Dostoevskij (rather than Tolstoj), constantly appear on their top tens – all authors of merit btw, who have in common a certain tendency to abstract musing, sometimes dark themes, and prose that is deemed experimental. They are less passionate about equally great authors such as Flaubert, for instance, because they seem unable to tackle with everyday themes or get bored by them easily – which also influences their taste in prose: they tend to like monological and overbloated texts (Krasznahorkai) and tend to equate well executed monological prose (Joyce) with poorly executed monological prose (Pynchon) because they enjoy the aesthetics of it rather than its quality.Besides rarely engaging with women or acknowledging women authors as being on the same level as some of the doorsteppers they read, they also usually don’t engage with short books on the same depth, are unable to discuss prose technicalities (also a reason why, despite being on their precise wavelength, they shy away from Nabokov besides Lolita and Pale Fire, much like we do here), as well as poetry; plus, which is very weird to me, they are “avid readers” who almost never seem to read or seriously engage with philosophy or non-fiction.
>>25040119I also sense some kind of deeply rooted male insecurity in them. They emanate the same energy as gym-obsessed people, and their reading habits seem performative in the sense that they seem to attach their identity to being able to tackle big complicated male books, which in turn calls for an acknowledgement of their depth and value as males capable of reading them. But, much like the gym people who only lift weights, they seem unable to do anything useful with their intellectual muscles: they never learn proper study techniques, they rarely write or say or think anything brilliant, they never become truly competent in anything book-related, their understanding of the nuances of literature and poetry as well as their capacity to really engage with any political, psychological or philosophical topic remains, for the most part, superficial. Literature seems some sort of overbloated hobby for these guys. They seem like a different variant of these masturbatory males surrounded by videogame products and anime figures and talking about this stuff all day while eating cereals and producing no real impact on the world, while at the same time fully identifying as consumers of a certain kind of media as a way of claiming for themselves a clear, readable identity, so that they can fit in a pool to socialize and, eventually, meet women (in this, anime fans seem more sincere, in that being an otaku already excludes this last possibility). There is also a kind of attempt to appear safe for women by engaging in a safe and non-menacing hobby, such as reading, which provides a general impression of depth and thoughtfulness; but at the same time they either openly or secretly maintain typical heterosexual male points of view of canon literacy and quality as an absolute a-historical criterion of judgement of literature, while at the same time desperately trying to appear feminist-friendly. Most of what they say is basically tangential with stuff you’d hear on an alt-right podcast or on Joe Rogan, mostly because they are superficial readers of literature and don’t read philosophy nor engage with politics beyond a superficial Instagram/YouTube level. But I find this desire to please and accumulate internet swag points by appearing smart with books instinctively repulsive. I immediately see myself going at a pub with these guys to discuss literature over a beer and being totally overwhelmed by some of their pointless performative monologues about some banal insight on evil they had on their first reading of Blood Meridian… It must also be added that most (if not all: I haven’t checked) are American or American-coded readers, so this monological modality of discussion where prosaic and totally banal personal insights are presented as if they were incredibly personal and important is already ingrained in them.
>>25040122>There is also a kind of attempt to appear safe for women This is definitely the kind of energy this fat guy exudes, it's why he makes a point to attack the appropriate targets (McCarthy, Trump, Rowling, incels) whenever the opportunity presents itself, virtue signalling is a mating tactic.
>>25040119Tldr
>>25040057You forgot the most obvious give away>reads books
>>25039911Try losing some weight you fat fuck.
>>25039931>>25040057>>25040147Can I get uhhhh, early life?
>>25039981> crying about how Cormac McCarthy is a pedophile. Soiface is affirming physiognomy.
>>25039911Why do we need to bring retarded /v/tard memes to /lit/?
>>25041377That which lies at the heart of the meme is a univeral thing, untied to either board but rather born of society itself. We contend with the same cancer regardless of the hobby chosen.
>>25039911We're going to save the world with an unread stack of books?
>>25040122>proper study techniquesqrd?
>>25041422Underlining library books with permanent marker
>>25040122Some parts I agree with, but there's a lot of insecurity embedded in this post.
>>25039911What is with the rise of these vids/tubers? Is this the latest "self-improvement" fad? Anyway, my favs are the harvard poetry prof and the red neck who is reading the harvard classics. Aslo>reddit trucker
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