pynchon's misogyny

[davemarc]

Andrew writes, in part:
>
>Anyway, to get back to stereotyping I'll throw in another related data
>point which I think does inform. I just bought and devoured volume 5
>of the collected works of Robert Crumb the other day. Aside from
>recommending it to everyone (I noticed several Pynchon themes, in
>particular one cartoon called Shit or Shinola, and doubtless there are
>many more connections) it provides a similar case to TRP.
>
>Crumb has a black female character called Angelfood McSpade who is a
>stereotypical `jungle' black with fat lips, hair tied up and secured
>by a bone, naked breasts and a grass skirt barely covering the most
>enormously callipygian butt you will ever see, even in a Crumb cartoon
>(that's saying something, his women usually have massive thighs and
>arses). She is a portrayed as a lust filled sexpot and Crumb consigns
>her to the jungle lest she blow the minds (ok, not just the minds) of
>weak EuroAmerican males with her sexual wiles (all of which are
>lovingly described and occasionally depicted in obscene detail).
>
[snip]

Something that puzzled me about Jules's callipygian post was my knowledge
(based on his other postings) of his affection for Crumb, since Crumb (the
artist, the art, the following) struck me as a clear and familiar example of
one area in which Jules's generalizing about modern-day perceptions of
beauty was not valid.  
davemarc