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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Why? Just Why? Why ya gotta read things people didn't write? 
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. |
Did you not read it or do you just read it as 'ironic' because you haven't had to deal with that word being directed at you? May I suggest that it can feel different from this side of the fence?
At least the first "letter" at least attempted (best I could see, I only read the quoted portion, and very briefly) a sort of gender-neutrality -- Genre and Literature could presumably be any gender. The second "letter" is a hate screed of all caps which liberally uses woman-hating language (including a word which I will not reproduce here), as well as the stereotype that Literature is a flighty woman who left male Genre in order to 'find herself' and additionally makes ridiculous phone answering messages saying same. Lovely.
It would seem to me that the biggest difference in "tone" is that the second letter felt like the first letter was too gender-neutral and needed more misogynistic language. If you want to page Dr. Freud, by all means, because the author of that second "letter" has seriously unresolved issues with women, imho.
The contrast is especially amusing since literature aimed at women is, imho, more likely to be shoved into the Genre bucket. But, no, if you want to rail against Literature, you need to make Literature a woman-figure so that you can use handy misogynist language in your screed. Nice.
