Men Explain Lolita To Me

Perry Noid coolwithdoc at gmail.com
Thu Dec 17 16:43:02 CST 2015


She is definitely not going to win any of the people who were criticizing
her over whatever it was she wrote before with this piece. I can say that
much at least.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Curiously uneven if you ask me...salient, brilliant points mixed with
> the easiest (therefore worst) ways to make her case...
> people posting on Facebook???...My gawd....I could do this constantly.
>  People, men or women, misreading a great work.....
>    Nabokov had HH come to a moral epiphany....seems this must be said
> and wasn't. Unless Ms Nabokov quote is to be equivalent.
>
> we have to identify with Lolita because common human morality....to
> read it right....
> Does she read it aright even w identification?
> That she framed this around mansplaining....seems too of the moment...
> And that many women do not have their explanations and want you to know it?
> but, yes, more men 'splain than women in the America I know...
> I think she 'projects' her feminism world too much sometimes...
>
> More talk around me I don't really 'get".
>
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> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Matthew Taylor
> <matthew.taylor923 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thoughts on Rebecca Solnit's latest?
> >
> > http://lithub.com/men-explain-lolita-to-me/
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