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New Yorker - Cat Person

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 11/12/2017 19:17

This www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/11/cat-person is a very long, very uncomfortable read. This www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/fiction-this-week-kristen-roupenian-2017-12-11 is an interview with the author.

Basically it's all about how women end up in shitty situations because they are too polite or too scared to say no, or stop. It made me cringe inside reading it - I thought the author was scarily accurate.

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hipsterfun · 11/12/2017 21:04

All that stuff going on in the female character’s head is quite usual for women?

Muthafunker · 11/12/2017 21:03

Fuck politeness ladies!

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 11/12/2017 20:30

I'm surprised it's shocked men

It's interesting - I asked DP to read it and he would only read the start, it seemed to make him very uncomfortable.

I guess in society there is this assumption that women do what we do because we want to, not because we have been socialised to act that way.

I hope it makes men question this assumption, Id hazard a guess that a lot of them might recognise an event in rhis story that chimes with their lives, something they did when they were (maybe unwittingly) using this power imbalance- this must be uncomfortable for some.

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QuentinSummers · 11/12/2017 20:19

Apparently men hate it
www.newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2017/12/so-cat-person-short-story-has-made-straight-men-feel-uncomfortable-good?

I found it quite accurate. I'm surprised it's shocked men.