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neechees · 1 year ago

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In my rereads of Memoirs of a Geisha (Id read it first when I was a teenager, before i knew the author had stolen the life story of Mineko Iwasaki) I'd realized just how misogynist the story is. One of the glowing reviews of the book is that the author was praised for writing such an "accurate" and sensitive portrayal of a female character, but then all her relationships with women are portrayed as catty & negative while all her most positive relationships are with men that she looks on fondly, even when theyve been nothing but shitty to her. All the women in her life are either abusive bullies from the start, or good ones that turn sour where they betray her in some way, & her whole sphere of women is just catty & superficial & mean.

& Golden even wrote in negative relationships where in Iwasaki's life (the source that he was stealing from), they were POSITIVE ones for her

#her sister abandons her & never looks for her #her Geisha family are abusive & only care how much money she brings in #Pumpkin has every reason to hate her but is portrayed as mean & ends up betraying her #Golden also does this really weird thing where he says that Sayuri was essentially 'sold' into slavery (being a Geisha) by her father #but thats clearly not what happened. dude her father was old & instead of leaving his daughter orphaned he set her up for life #he essentially sent her to college with free rent & a job garuanteed if she did well & then a wealthy patron to pay her #orientalism #i reread it to compare to Mineko Iwasaki's memoir & its just SO obvious that he stole from her

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