Great read! Some quotes and comments …
“He tosses the cap onto the floor.” p2
As soon as he takes a bottle from the garage fridge and tosses the cap onto the floor, I hated him. Is he going to pick up the cap later? Clean up after himself? Don’t think so. But he thinks he’s entitled to the service of others. Bravo Fargo for capturing all that in just that one not-so-small action.
[He captions his selfie with something like] “Rise n grind. Make 2day yr bitch.” p2
That stops me. I honestly have to think that one through. ‘Make 2day yr bitch’ ?? Eventually I realize he means ‘Take control of your day’ but he equates a day, or most likely anything to be controlled, with bitch, i.e., female, because they are things to be controlled. Wow. Has exerting control over women become so normalized it’s replaced ‘Have a nice day’ and ‘Have a good one’? How has controlling women become so normalized? Ah. porn. And the manosphere.
It occurs to me now that the entitled little prick who dismissed me the other day so easily is probably a porn addict. I thought he’d just assumed that all locals and/or all women and/or all old people are village idiots. But now I’m thinking it goes deeper. He’s raised himself, by watching porn, on contempt for women. They are simply so not worth his attention. At least not an unfuckable such as myself. I predict a lot of sexual assault in his future. No wonder young women aren’t dating anymore. Good for them.
“… slumping down in his seat with his legs sprawled across the aisle like he didn’t give a damn how much space he took up.” p4
That’s no surprise. None whatsoever.
And then when someone is killing him, he has the utter cluelessness, which makes him even more dangerous, to ask ‘Why?’
I am going to so love this book.
“‘Afternoon, ladies! … What are you up to?’ ..” p59
As if they’re children. Up to some mischief. Go fuck yourself.
It occurs to me that there should be three separate crimes:
1. rape – for penis forced inside a hole, be it a vagina, a rectum, or a mouth
2. forced impregnation – for when rape results in pregnancy
3. sexual assault – for any sexual non-consensual touch
And the stuff about her research and his research … p60, p85
“Kinnear and Stright always talk about Gorman football victories with a sense of ownership, like they took to the field and sacked the quarterback themselves.” p93
Yeah, I’ve always thought that.
“[K]illing a man is so much more satisfying than fucking a man could ever be.”
T-shirts, anyone? Fridge magnets? Bumper stickers?
And then all the excuses … Fargo has them all p151-155. (Except for ‘You’re crazy!’)
“You think flirting is an invitation for him to assault her?” p198
No. Simply being female is. Apparently.
