Despite being raised in an upper-middle-class English family, I don’t think I ever read Chesterton and I have no intention of filling that hole in my education. I bet my grandma read him and surely my mother must have. And laughed. Reading these extracts helps me understand: the self-centered, cynical and prejudiced old bastard could write.
Me, I was raised reading either higher or lower on the literary ladder: Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Dickens; Ian Fleming [who should be thrown onto the bonfire], Leslie Charteris [Patricia Holm and a certain sly wit, along with the cynicism he was born into and the racism he faced, saves him], and Agatha Christie, whose world was generally very nice, except for the murderers.
I have no problem with body shaming people like him. Since he refused to five women respect I think he’s earned every possible insult. Since such language might bother less horrible people, I will change it.
“I have no problem with body shaming people like him” If I were to say that I have no problem using the C-word for people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, would that be acceptable to you? I doubt it. We fat people see you doing this, and deflecting with “but he deserves to be shamed for being fat because he’s horrible for other reasons” is quite frankly a bullshit rationalization.
Despite being raised in an upper-middle-class English family, I don’t think I ever read Chesterton and I have no intention of filling that hole in my education. I bet my grandma read him and surely my mother must have. And laughed. Reading these extracts helps me understand: the self-centered, cynical and prejudiced old bastard could write.
Me, I was raised reading either higher or lower on the literary ladder: Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Dickens; Ian Fleming [who should be thrown onto the bonfire], Leslie Charteris [Patricia Holm and a certain sly wit, along with the cynicism he was born into and the racism he faced, saves him], and Agatha Christie, whose world was generally very nice, except for the murderers.
Don't worry, Karen, they're bringing back respectable racism. And, especially, antisemitism.
I know! I am so sick of having to keep fighting this shit.
Yes, but Father Brown, and and and...
All the ammunition Chesterton gives you to attack him, and you still opt for a lazy body-shaming dig? Would have expected better from you.
I have no problem with body shaming people like him. Since he refused to five women respect I think he’s earned every possible insult. Since such language might bother less horrible people, I will change it.
“I have no problem with body shaming people like him” If I were to say that I have no problem using the C-word for people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, would that be acceptable to you? I doubt it. We fat people see you doing this, and deflecting with “but he deserves to be shamed for being fat because he’s horrible for other reasons” is quite frankly a bullshit rationalization.