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Would you pass the test?
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passing the test would be walking out and letting that daft cunt pay for the meal
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Yes
Even if you haven't read them, everyone here should be able to list at least 3
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Jane Eyre, Mansfield Park, A Wizard of Earthsea.
Mfw no first date
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Easily.
Even if you don't know anything about literature just say Harry Potter 1 2 and 3.
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>>8279014
Mira gonzalez,megan boyle and Melissa Broder
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>>8279017
"Yeah, mate!" Fist bump! (Go home alone, masturbate, drink, cry).
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>>8279014
Yes, then I would ask her to do the same for black authors and get all #triggered when she can't
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>>8279053
>black authors
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Pretty easy.

Sylvia Plath
Betty Smith
Emily Dickinson

All the female writers you need ;)
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I happen to have only read three books by female authors: Pride and Prejudice, Middlemarch, and A Poetry Handbook. However, if I were to be asked such a question I would rather slap my property.
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>>8279017
Aye, feminists aren't worth the time of day.
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>>8279061
Eh, James Emmanuel is a good poet. sometimes great.
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>>8279063
She asked for book titles not authors names. You failed.
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>>8279017
fpbp
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>>8279071
so sad today
selected tweets
unpublished blog
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>>8279076
Books, not rags.
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>>8279071
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn.
The Colossus and Other Poems.
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.

;)
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The Left Hand of Darkness
Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
...
To Kill a Mockingbird

BASED men win again, womemes BTFO forever and all eternity
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Hildegard of Bingen
St. Theresa of Avila
Sasha Grey
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>>8279063
Oven head
Weak Lungs
Weak Kidneys
Got ya.
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My friends play a game on first dates now where it's ask women to name three worthwhile works of literature or philosophy.

It never goes well.
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>>8279079
are you calling female authors rag?
sexist much?
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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
My Antonia

*le shrug*
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My friends play a game on first dates now where we ask women to stroke our dicks.

9/10 works every time.
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>>8279061
you just missed out on a hot date with me my dude
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>>8279014
god no
>anne frank
>virginia woolf
>missy eliot?
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>>8279124

Plot twist: we each take turns playing 'the woman'.
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Gotcha Bitch
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>>8279145
Plot twist: Hands are hands faggot.
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>>8279014
"you know, i could, but i dont think its going to work out between us. bye!"
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>>8279014
Lispector Short Stories
Munro Short Stories
Woolf's Orlando
Are we going to bang now?
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>>8279067
Feminists are sometimes worth my time. People who try to put me through tests to prove my worth or worthies on the other hand won't get shit out of me.
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Summer of the Elder Tree
Raccoon
There but for the
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>>8279014
>Sor Juana's Poetry
>Morrison's The Bluest Eye (for school, didn't like it)
>A book about black holes by a female astrophysicist whose name I can't remember
>A lot (+30) of short stories and poems by female authors

I think I might get laid.
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>>8279190
Also Mrs Dalloway by Woolf. Dunno how could I forget it, I loved it.
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>>8279150
Kek, nice one
HAHAHAhahahahaHAHAHA
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My friends play a game on first dates now where it's ask your date to name three books they've read.

It never goes well.


>>doesn't realize its 2016
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>harry potter
>anne frank's diary
>one of my physics textbooks
I'm probably better off not saying anything tbqh
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I would

1. Harry Potter when I was a kid

2. The giver

3. Some post apocalyptic book written by a women, didn't realize until after I finished
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The Waves
To the Lighthouse
Orlando
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>>8279190
>Sor Juana
I'd sleep with you solely for that desu
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>>8279154

A smooth twisting motion feels much better than a jerk, anyway.
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>>8279262
isn't the waves written by Virginia woolfe too ?
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>>8279014
Harry Potter and the sorcerers stone, Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets, Harry Potter and the prisoner of azkaban. BOOM BITCH! Slash drink in her face, moonwalk out.
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>>8279014
Lol

The guys who can don't go on dates and guys who can't don't need dates

This woman is an idiot
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Agonism - Chantal Mouffe
Rebellion - Nora Connolly
Collected Writings - Constance Markiewiz

And if she lambastes me for not mentioning fiction, I'd probably walk out
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>>8279281
yes, they all are
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>>8279014

Of course, I'd just lie.

I'll also note that I love how this tweet, which looks like it's about men's inadequate engagement with women's literature, is really about how women with sex lives don't care about women's literature either. Unless Ms. Wood wants us to picture her ending the date when these failures occur - in which case, the implicit status the crack relies on vanishes. 'Have you read Mary Wollstonecraft?' 'Nah.' 'Me either, your place or mine?'
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-Any of the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling

-The Earth Is the Lord's: A Tale of the Rise of Genghis Khan by Taylor Caldwell

"La saga de los confines" by Liliana Bodoc, a latino woman writer who is really respected in my country
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My friends play a game on first dates now where they wake up forty-five minutes later with a bleeding ass. It always goes BONZER
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>>8279014
I don't recognize gender categories
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>>8279190

Book about black holes eh? Is it The Color Purple.

BAM!

classic ribaldry
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>>8279330

Shit, forgot second question mark, ribaldry dented, let's do that again
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>>8279190

Book about black holes eh? Is it The Color Purple?

BAM!

classic ribaldry

[director's cut]
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>ryder - barnes
>price of salt - highsmith
>elegance - dariaux
where do i collect my patrician femme waifu?
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Ursala K LeGuin
Kay Redfield
Elizabeth Wurtzle

Yes, yes I would
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>>8279317
*neither
Dw happen to the best of us, anon.
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Anthem
The Fountainhead
Atlas Shrugged

really it would be:
Mrs. Dalloway
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Book of Dolores
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>>8279352

That was deliberate, in order to indicate her total unliterariness.
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>>8279014
>my friends play a game on first dates now where it's ask women to list three hobbies excluding Netflix.
>it never goes well.
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Easy, and I'm a pleb. JK Rowling, Margaret Atwood, Harper Lee.
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I don't play games where the objective recedes whenever I complete it.
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>>8279399
Truth
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Too Kill A Mocking Bird, The Giver, and Twelve Little Indians.
Grade school still counts, right?
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I don't care.
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>>8279014
I'd tell her Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, and Harper Lee. Then I'd revert the questioning back to her and ask her to name three african american male authors she has read. Then proceed to call her a racist cunt.
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>>8279014

Ursula le Guin
Elif Shafak
Tonke Dragt

What do I win? I can even name ten, 20 would be doable as well
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>>8279014
Just say 3 Harry Potter books and walk out.
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>>8279459
Book titles would be Wizard of Earthsea, Fourty Rules of Love, Brief voor de Koning
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Everyone here would pass it, they just wouldn't have read any of them
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Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein

I could probably get some SJW pussy with those answers if i wanted it. all very femme impowering shit. of course, the correct response is to go wide-eyed and say "hey you know, I'm reading one right now! it's in my car, lemme go get it" and then driving away. fuck people like this
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Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
Cat's Eye
Possessing the Secret of Joy
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Hadrian's Memoirs
Ice
Dark Spring

Literally the first that came to mind. Show me a woman who can name three books by female authors that aren't pop bestsellers, YA, or genreshit. I bet I could mansplain the shit out of Holly.
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Just go for easy ones
and lie obviously

>To Kill a Mockingbird
>Frankenstein
>Harry Twotter
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>>8279508
pls be grill. we can cuddle
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>>8279513

Sorry m8, but I have penis.
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>>8279549
maybe you'd like being a grill? just think about it
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I could easily name over 3. (Anyone here could).

How pleb is the men this women dates? Holy fuck.
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>>8279014
The Illiad
King Lear
The Bible
done
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>>8279014
Memoirs of Hadrian
Mrs. Dalloway
The Last Samurai

But then I would explain to her why I've been boycotting women authors for over 2 years now because some clickbait boycott white male authors articles pissed me off and I don't really miss women authors.
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>>8279597

Not especially, because what she's describing never happens, it's bullshit for the consumption of bitter hambeasts, patent in its untruth if you think for more than a second.
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>>8279014
i play a game on dates where i lie to get pussy
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>>8279628
A play a game on first (and last) dates where I don't flirt and can barely hold a conversation
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>>8279639
im sorry
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>>8279014
Harry Potter, Twilight and the first book in Robin Hobb's novels.
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>>8279014
>Can you name three books you've read by female authors?
>Haha, what?
>It's just a game my friends play when we date guys. Well? Can you?
>...of course I can, I told you that I read of-
>Okay, well then do it.

*two hours later on tumblr*
>And get this....at the end of the date.....he told me he wasn't sure he wanted to see me again. What an evil, woman-hating bastard!
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>Beloved
>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
>Frankenstein

Do I win?
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>>8279639
This. I keep looking around at the waitresses due to nervousness and my date thinks I'm admiring them.
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>>8279014
Unless she's dating a total Chad.
Then her mouth is too stuffed with cock to ask about anything as gay and beta as books.
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>>8279014
It's funny how she's instantly managed to make me lose all interest in knowing anything more about her.
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>>8279670
Can confirm I'm Chad
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>>8279652
top kek

It'd proceed exactly this awkwardly in real life.

>taking a date's casually mentioned interest in literature and turning it into a weird hostile knowledge test

The uncomfortable silence after you'd list your titles would be dreadful.
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>>8279061
I know none, tell me some 4 dates pls, and for reads
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I wonder if I could remember all the titles of the Resident Evil tie-in novels by S.D. Perry...
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>>8279262
i like you, 2 of those were my choices
also frankenstein
hell i could even impress her with my understanding of the bloody chamber's vaginal themes
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>>8279014
I'm not a pleb, so, yes.
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>>8279690
there's a "best books by black people" thread floating around in the catalog right now
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>>8279667
how are you such pansies?
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>>8279713
>He doesn't live life oscillating between paranoia and terror
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Nella Larsen
Banana Yoshimoto
Sylvia Plath
I could tell her 20 more, because I've probably read 300 times as much as her and don't care whether a woman wrote it.
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Infinite Jest–

Damn, already messed up...
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>>8279014
it's always a weird feeling knowing that not only do people go on dates/have sex casually and regularly, but that they also have an actual urge to. why is this?
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>>8279014
Handmaiden's Tale, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Atlas Shrugged
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>My friends play a game on first dates now where it's ask anyone to name three good literary books they've read by anyone.

>It never goes well.
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>>8279740
>why is this
You really can't puzzle that out for yourself, autismo?
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>Sapphos
>Emily dickinson
>Zadie Smith

"Huh, I only recognize Dick in son, you made those other two up how do you spell them?"
*Pulls out gold iphone in minion case*
"Shaf foest . . S-h? A? Ff? . . ."
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Frankenstein
The first few Harry Potters
To Kill a Mockingbird Bird
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>>8279791
Pretty much this. She's gonna reach for the moral high-ground and then scramble to recover from an embarrassing BTFO while secretly googling Virginia Woolf and Banana Yoshimoto and Flannery O'Connor and I'll politely pretend not to notice her weak attempt at damage control because God knows it's a miracle that I'm on a date in the first place.
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Ann Nocenti, Daredevil
Louise Simonson, The New Mutants
Jo Duffy, Star Wars
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>>8279176
That's like every girl ever dude
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any male author could become a tranny at any point in the future, thereby making their past works female literature
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>>8279886
Some of them probably didn't identify as men either.
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>>8279256
Oryx and crake?
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>>8279017
Basically this, not necessarily because I have a grudge against female authors but because if a woman is quizzing you so fucking crassly upon first meeting you, she's likely a completely irredeemable cunt anyways.

A woman who has no patience for the nuance of socialization is not a woman, she's a feminist which in our context is a masculinized female.
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>>8279017
Underrated
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Evelyn Waugh
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I'd probably lose desu just because I'm shit at remembering names
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The fact that she feels this is a tough question just goes to show that she doesn't even read herself. It's kinda like asking a gymnast if he can even do a front flip because all they do is backflips. Kind of a poor analogy
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>>8279014
Yes, pretty easily.
The Awakening - Kate Chopin, The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Second Sex - Beauvoir, Frankenstein - Mary Shelly (Who hasn't read this), and those are just off the top of my head.
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>>8279014
Glass, Irony and God - Anne Carson
Willful Creatures - Aimee Bender
On Photography - Susan Sontag
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Uhhhh The House on Mango Street, a court of mist and fury, zenith, one by some immigrant girl and her stupid brother
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I would say with a solid face:

The Ethics of Ambiguity


and see what is to be continued after that
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Would lose because it would be difficult for me to quiz-recall le female authors meme because I don't mentally categorize the books I've read into male/female checklists.
Thus this vapid bitch would get up from the table, the realization that she's the real sexist remaining beyond her paltry grasp.
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>>8279014
Yeah, pretty easily. I'd probably even name three they haven't heard of because they're filthy plebs.
>Mavis Gallant
>Maude Hutchins
>Melanie Rae Thon
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>>8279347
Price of Salt is so fucking good
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>>8279796
>first few Harry Potters
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>>8280105
Oh I just re-read the tweet. I haven't read any of those I guess TKAM is about it with female authors, preferred the live play adaptation anyways.
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>>8279112
your taste is rag
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why would you not read books by female authors? that's like incomprehensible to me
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>>8280155
I don't understand why anyone would have an author-filter.
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What is it with females enjoying the thought of being cruel and judgemental to people who find them desirable (and given that they're on a date with them, whom they also find desirable)?

I presume (going off gay men, who I know better cause fag and because really femme gay guys do this shit too) it's a sorta a subtle humble brag where you make yourself feel wanted by implying that you get so much attention that you can value it so cheaply that it means nothing to you to do shit like this. What a noxious emotion.
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>>8279014
I don't even read books.

Harry Potter series, Atlas Shrugged, 50 Shades of Gray

There you go. This is from a mongoloid who saw this thread from the front page and hasn't read a book in about 5 years.
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frankenstein
the awakening
my antonia

gg
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>>8279014
The Bell Jar
Middlemarch
Orlando
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To the Lighthouse
Good Morning, Midnight
Bluets

Easy. How so many men could fail this test is beyond me.
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>>8280179
Similar vein of why some guys talk shit about women and honestly view them as lesser; girls often look for any method of control they can find, considering we're usually smaller and already thought of as a default inferiority by a large number major influences in academic fields. It's like, when you know a guy's into you and you're afraid of telling them no because you like being friends and don't want to make him angry but at the same time, it's sort of fun to have someone to rely on. Boosts your self esteem. It's cruel sometimes, yeah.

I really can't see any woman actually doing this test on actual date; female authors have come up if literature's on the table and it's refreshing to see someone well versed in gender studies I guess? It usually isn't that deep; you can tell what a guy's really looking for by the end of the first date, this girl doesn't sound like someone who's actually done so; it could be just projecting on twitter for attention.
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>>8279676

>It's funny how she's instantly managed to make me lose all interest in knowing anything more about her.

this. i have pretty good taste in female writers but i would shrug and bail on a woman that conceited. i'd rather go get shitfaced with a gutter slag than have to deal with all of that yuppie tedium.
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>>8279014
this is the worst

I think enough evidence has been provided to kill the "lit qt gf" meme
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>>8279028
>>8279150
>>8279254
>>8279256
>>8279283
>>8279321
>>8279376
>>8279461
>>8279647
>>8279796
kill yourselves
>>8280011
oooo, sneaky bastard.
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>>8280342
>I think enough evidence has been provided to kill the "lit qt gf" meme
??????????????????????
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>>8280379
>kill yourselves
no you
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anything by William Shakespeare, who was actually a little black girl
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>>8279014
I've read tons of fantasy trash by women. Harry Potter, most of the Christie Golden Warcraft books. Also Frankenstein.
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>>8279014
"It never goes well" could imply that they get shitty gotcha answers that show they aren't really reading female authors, just like half this thread.
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>>8280155
It's not like I'm specifically avoiding them, it's just the vast majority of great literature was written by men and I don't feel like reading subpar books just so I can signal my virtue to some people on Tumblr or w/e.
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>>8280011
I have to read Vile Bodies for a class this semester, is it any good? Going to read it anyways but just wondering.
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>>8279014
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
The World Is On Fire by Joni Tevis
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Wurthering Heights
To kill a Mockingbird
The Outsiders

No way I'd be able to pull that list out of my ass if I was put on the spot though.
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>>8279014

>ask men to name three books they've read by female authors

This girl is screaming for a man to shut her down and make her feel like a little girl again. I bet she wants that more than anything.
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No, I don't actually read.
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Harry Potter 1, 2 and 3
Chechnmate
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>>8280611
Inorite

>>8280603
She's doing the lady thing of bros before hoes (sisses before kisses?), but she's going to tire of it eventually.

>>8279014
I wouldn't do this on principle. Dating plebs is shit. If you want me to talk about female authors we can talk but I'd rather not do it through the medium of a pop quiz
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This is genuinely not hard and if a guy can't do it it's either evidence that he doesn't read at all, doesn't read literature or has something seriously wrong with him like some of you people who read books based on /lit/ entry guides.

The first three books on my mind would probably be:
>Wuthering Heights
>The Waves
>Wise Blood
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You can easily just flip the script like "tell me some, I've been wanting to read more female authors"
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>>8279322
>BONZER
I thought it was bonza m8
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i have read 8 books by a female author
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>>8279431
>Twelve Little Indians
That is not the title given to it by its mother
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WOMEN ARE A MEME WAKE UP
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>>8280632
only joking btw
i have watched the dvds but i havent read the books
i dont even read lmao
i only come here to troll
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>>8280644

>haha I don't even read jokes on you retards

Damn you got us.
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>>8279014
>play a game on first dates now where it's ask

Goodbye, Holly
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>>8280658
>wasting your time reading books written by nerd cucks instead of living life and banging sluts

you sure showed me, with your collection of paper bound cuckold stories.
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>>8279110
Kek
Asking this and leaving when she fails to answer.

Maybe even make it more specific. Like German philosophy.
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Her Twitter is an interesting read. She seems to be a dedicated anti-capitalist/feminist, making at least 200 tweets a day.
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>>8279559

Do you like grills that weigh 266 lbs, are over six feet tall, and have crewcuts? I would be the world's shittiest trap/twink.

>tfw no lithe, gracile, trap/twink to cuddle with

We'll find him (her??) one day Anon.
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I like to meet women from a certain *scene" or demographic outside of my experience. I figure out the attributes and hobbies they respect and then I sleep with several of the lauded exemplars of this field. Then I move on. To the next one. I am 25, I have hit the high 40s in terms of notches on my bedpost. It is so hollow yet compulsive, like attaining PlayStation trophies.

Anyway, if you want to see a feminist squirm quote Paglia.
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>go look for fanfics of a book by my favorite fem author
>"let's turn the female MC into a trans!"

Get away from my old books, you SJW scum.
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>>8279014 (OP)
I have, mostly poets, so I'd pass. Pic related is my /lit/fu. I've also read Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison, so guess who gets black and woman brownie points in one. Obviously Jane Austen. I'm sure I've read some other women too. Can't think right now.

>>8279061
There are a lot of great black writers. Back to /pol/ you fat virgin.

>Richard Wright
>Ralph Ellison
>James Emmanuel

Also Paul Beatty for contemporary fiction and Terrance Hayes for contemporary poetry.
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>>8280730
>a trans
>turn
>fanfic

w e w
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https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1937164-holly-wood?shelf=read
Here's her Goodreads page. It's interesting to scroll through it and observe her progress - from generic "look, I'm reading Twilight" phase to "I am a smart girl and read classics like Odyssey and Tale Of Two Cities" to "Why don't men want to commit to a long term relationship with me? I better read a book like Women Men Love, Women Men Leave: What Makes Men Want to Commit and find out", then she evidently gives up and you have books like The Science of Single, Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life and The Big Lie: Motherhood, Feminism, and the Reality of the Biological Clock, then you get an obligatory Buddhist phase (nothing too serious, obviously, slap some Eckhart Tolle on top of it), then she discovers mainstream feminist literature (The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence and stuff like that), then she goes deeper (theoretical stuff like Dvorkin and some pop-Marxism) and finally, one of her last reads is Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine - "In a future just a few years down the road in the wrong direction, a woman's failure to comply with her patriarchal overlords will result in exile to the meanest penal planet in the galaxy. When the newest crop of fresh femmes arrive, can they work together to stay alive or will hidden agendas, crooked guards, and the deadliest sport on (or off!) Earth take them to their maker?". Very interesting indeed. The overarching theme here seems to be "Why Am I Not A Desirable Partner For Men And Why Is It Someone Else's Fault?". Her review of Sun Also Rises is also interesting - "This book is mostly about horrible people drinking too much fucking wine and loving the proto-manic pixie dreamgirl. In Spain." In conclusion, if it ever came to a physical altercation in a self-defence situation I could take her out with no effort because I'm a MAN.
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Nervous Conditions
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Awakening

Done, but I'm a girl.
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>>8280770
I wonder what would happen if you tracked the progress of the average /lit/ poster like that
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I can, but I wouldn't want to.

Honestly the sort of girl who asks that probably isn't dating guys who could name three male authors. It's just childish.
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>>8280773
Nada, since the average /lit poster doesn't read books.
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Magda Szabó
Nadine Gordimer
Virginia Woolf

probably a dozen others from novelettes or short story collections
most of the time they're not very good
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>>8280788
/thread
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>>8280770
>Tale Of Two Cities

Fangirls read that for Sdyney Carton.
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>>8279014
Harry potter and the philosphers stone, the second one, and the third one.
Ive read a.totql.of 5 harry potter books so id pass easy.
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>>8280773
I never update my good reads account.
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>>8280770
Actually she's also an author herself.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28433801-plutocratoetry
>In 2015, Holly Wood got angry at bad, rich, white men and began writing bad poems about them. These are those poems.
>This volume includes favorites such as:
>Ted Cruz, How Does Heaven Work?
>Paul Graham is Asking to be Eaten
>Shkreli-Capitalism is Pathetic
>and many more other irreverent favorites.
>Callers are standing by.
Appears to be self-published though.
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Harry Potter
Twilight
Hunger Games
Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek
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>>8280806
kek
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Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, To The Lighthouse. Simples.

Tbh everyone on /lit/ should at least have read the first two
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virginia woolf, carson mccullers, joan didion ... THE LIST could GO ON
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>>8280770
OH NO someone is changing and growing
everyoen should try to be more like you and wallow in the same problems you had in highschool
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>>8280826
>change is inherently good
Spotted the spook.
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>>8279014
I bet they ask that question a lot.
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>>8280835
fallacious assumption
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>>8280826
I wouldn't use the verb "growing" in this case, more like "descending". Anyway, if you find yourself in a situation where you are undesirable to people and unable to get anyone to commit to you, ask yourself a question "Is there something I can do to become a person people want to be with? Is there anything I can do to stop being a net drag on society?". That would be "growing".
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>>8280841
Yes, that's what I'm saying.
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>>8280803
>>Shkreli-Capitalism is Pathetic
Fucking socdems I swear
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>>8280803
>>8280862
She sounds more like the "crony capitalism" crowd.
"Shkreli-Capitalism" is just capitalism.
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>>8280874
Yes that was what I was getting at.
Saving capitalism from its own contradictions.
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>>8279014
Brontë sisters. Boom, I got laid.
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>>8279014
ofc, why would anyone read anything other than the voluminous output of Margaret Cavendish for their entire life
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>>8279676
Not really. Not like lol funny.
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>>8280770
>The Pale King
>by David Foster Wallace
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>>8279176
don't you want a partner that cares about her quality of spouse? or are you too worried about your inadequacy?
>>8280155
"men don't read books written by female authors" is a myth started by men who don't read and propagated by women who don't read
>>8280179
because women DO get so much attention of that kind that it means literally nothing unless it's coming from someone they're attracted to, desu, they just let it get to their heads
>>8280336
>it's refreshing to see someone well versed in gender studies
if by refreshing you mean repulsive
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>>8279014
I would name the three books and then dump her for being such a faggot
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I refuse to invest the time to read a novel written by a female. Vastly inferior minds.
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---OFFICIAL NOT GAY ANSWER---

The Awakening
Atlas Shrugged
The Bell Jar
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>>8280806
moderate chuckle
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>>8282177
I'm married. I married someone who was nice to me and I in turn am nice to her. I think needing to have the "best" partner is a desire to make another person an extension of your ego and that that drive arises from insecurity and will lead to unhappiness. Also people are implicitly testing others for the characteristics they desire all the time which is ok but an explicit test on a first date would signal to me that the person is needlessly arrogant and devoid of social grace and because I value myself I wouldn't consider her good enough for me.
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The Bell Jar
The Luminaries
No Matter How I Look At It, It's You Guy's Fault I'm Not Popular!

What do I win?
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>>8279082
>Complete Dickinson
ma nigga
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p & p
wuthering heights
mrs. dalloway

the list goes on...(tbf i have read quite a lot)
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Name three books you've read by a pansexual, demi-queer, trans-racial, Xer with transexual headmates.

Oh you can't? Bigot
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>>8279871
It does include a lot of girls but if you value yourself don't let yourself get treated that way. It may not be worth it to you but it was definitely worth it to me.
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>>8279014
The Fountainhead
Atlas Shrugged
Going Rogue: An American Life: Sarah Palin
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>>8279014
harry potter
fifty shades of grey
twilight
that one with jennifer lawrence

shit is easy as fuck just chicklit and YA and your good
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>>8280098
Short stories dont count lad, tho the yellow wallpaper is pretty good.
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>>8279053
Alexandre Dumas he gets bonus points for being French and black and Haitian. Three in one strike.
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>>8280770

L-E-L m8

Love Every Laugh.
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>>8282299
>i think wanting to marry someone of upstanding character and virtue is egotistical
ok buddy, hope she doesn't divorce you when she realizes you don't read female authors
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>>8279014
Harry Potter
Secret Journey by Peg Kehret
The Great Gilly Hopkins
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Catherina Regina von Greifsberg
Sybille Schwarz
Ursula le Guin

She doesn't even know the first two.
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>>8280770

Now this is effortposting.
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>>8282299
I agree, commodifying people and talking about their "quality" is sickening to me. My only criteria in a partner are that they're kind (to me and others), that they understand my feelings, and that they share my love for certain things.

>>8282363
Not being a slave to traditionalist spooks doesn't mean you'll end up with a crazy feminist, it just means you'll end up with a decent, non-elitist person.
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>>8279014
It's not my fault women don't write good books
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I think you guys are missing the point of this tweet. The question is supposed to expose the feminist men who would answer with alacrity all their favorite female authors. It's well known that even feminist women don't want to date feminist men. And so passing the test, at least with full marks, would entail answering something like "I've never read any women authors because they haven't ever written worthwhile books."
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>>8279101

underrated post
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>>8282397
Edgy.
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>>8282397
you are strange
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Hey guys, I've never had sex and i'm over 20
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>>8282386
>upstanding character
>virtue
>traditionalist spooks
TRIGGERED
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>>8279014
Easily
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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>>8282429
To be fair, I don't know what you mean by those words, they're pretty nebulous. I'm just assuming the most common connotation in a place like this. But even if you aren't using those words in a traditionalist manner, it comes across as elitist and exclusionary when you talk about someone's "adequacy".
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>>8279014

Harry Potter
Jane Eyre
Middlemarch

I think I might pass.
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Room of One's Own, Wrinkle in Time, and Jane Eyre
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Godless: The Church of Liberalism
Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America
Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hellhole
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Yes, easily. Anyone who actually reads a lot would be able to do the same. Women authors are not some rare species, nor are they shunned nearly as much as feminists think.
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>>8280852
It's almost as if you just defined growth in a specific way because you have specific underlying premises not shared by everyone else such as that one should be beneficial to society in its current state.

>>8280770
How about you do this fun posting in the next goodreads thread and go through the books on someone's list with the assumption that their selection is just driven by them not getting laid and trying to find someone to blame or something to replace them getting laid. Might blow your mind.
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Harry Potter series
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Brontë Sisters
T W I L I G H T
W
I
L
I
G
H
T
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>>8279014

Fuck women and their games.
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>>8279014
>Wolf Brother
>Handmaid's Tale
>Wuthering Heights
Yeah, but I wouldn't exactly be showing off.
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>>8282363
If you want someone of virtue observe them when they don't know they are being observed. If you want a shiny bauble to show of put them through tests to ensure they know the socially appropriate answers.
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>>8282595
Who hurt you bby
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>>8279017
>letting that daft cunt pay for the meal
Being a brute doesn't prove her wrong
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>>8279076
is that one of her "poems" or is that a list of book titles
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No love for Katherine Dunn?
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>>8279014
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

ez.
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I read it as:

My friends play a game on first dates now where it's ask a cute but stupid guy out and then find out he doesn't even read books.

It never goes well. (But sometimes I'll fuck him anyway)
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>>8282397
>"I've never read any women authors because they haven't ever written worthwhile books."

that's not true though

even the Romans admired Sappho's poetry

you're just being stupid if you think women have never written good books. even the most conservative Victorians were usually smart enough to admit that they enjoyed reading Jane Austen
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>>8280770
She's a lady version of a robot at the end of it
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>>8279014
Fucking Harry Potter you cunts.
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>>8280770
I thought the number of books was impressive until I started noticing that some of the "books" are actually essays
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>>8279014
Yes. And then I would get up and leave.
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>>8280712
>Do you like grills that weigh 266 lbs, are over six feet tall, and have crewcuts?
Slightly better than a bulldyke but, no, no thank you. I think traps might read more than twinks, but you'll have to play up the genre shit for most of them. Maybe try Woolf?
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>>8279014
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (fucking horrible)
Harry Potter
Hunger Games
Frankenstein
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>>8279014
Girl with a Pearl Earring, Time Traveler's Wife, Nelly Bly travelogues. Dead simple.
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>>8279014
>I won't date you because you don't consume media produced by my gender

So, this is what things have come to?
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>>8279014
Emma Donoghue, Katy Reichs, JK Rowling

Only Donoghue is a decent author but I'd pass the test.
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>>8282952
I can kind of see where she's coming from though: it's more odd that someone would avoid female authors, and might indicate an inability to relate to women or take their thoughts and experiences seriously.
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Okay; The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper, childhood favourite.

Basically anything by Ursula K. Leguin; I read the first four(?) Earthseas, but I'll count them as one because I don't need to be a scrub.

Grave Secrets - Cathy Reichs, I was given it to read during an overnight stay in a police cell; coming quietly has some advantages, but I wouldn't call the literature selection one of them.

Right, that's three and notably none of them were J.K. Rowling or Suzanne fucking Collins.

I think this entitles me to a shag.
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