#i love & enjoy his work while simultaneously retaining the ability to recognise & call him out on his misogyny. | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

butchkaramazov · 11 months ago

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thinking about how i love murakami’s writing & narrative style, the way he subtly catches the reader’s attention etc etc & and at the same time despise the way he writes women & sex scenes. thinking about how i’m starting to appreciate him while hating the misogyny in his writing, & simultaneously recognising how his culture & upbringing played a major role in forming his misogynistic views & also understanding that he's a man before he's a writer &c &c........

#i have a lot of Thoughts about murakami & his writing #he loves kawakami's feminist works but then again......the way he describes women & their bodies....& also the bland sex scenes.......#the way his limited knowledge (or lack thereof) of female anatomy really shines through.......#but then again. he's rich. famous. the most celebrated writer of japan. brought up amidst the japanese patriarchal society #& hugely male-centric culture. i get why he is the way he is (like 90% of the japanese male population -- not only japanese #-- one could say global population -- except he has a remarkable imagination & a somewhat different approach to the mundane)#so i don't really. side w either those who hate murakami or are obsessed w him.#i love & enjoy his work while simultaneously retaining the ability to recognise & call him out on his misogyny.#<- one reason why i respect & admire makeo kawakami #one should read her interview w murakami where she calls him out on his misogyny & murakami tries to deflect her (valid) points #on a lighter note though. “her breasts breasted breastily” is a phrase i was genuinely prepared to read in a murakami novel &#was surprised when i was unable to find it #anyway. needed to get this out of my system because damn i have some mixed feelings abt this man

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