u/FireDog8569

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Okay so I got into this book from the doom mod it inspired, and I've gotta say I fucking love this book so much¹. However, I've noticed the way it talks about sex and women and it's just... odd. Most of the time Truant has a tendancy to focus on a woman's tits, or the sex he has with them, and it really just creeps me out. I'm a gay man² for context, and it just rubs me the wrong way how whenever women are brought up by the MC there's a sex scene usually in store. It just seems a bit objectifying to me the way women are talked about. Not that romance or sex is bad or anything obviously but like there's no way somebody's gonna wanna have a one night stand with nearly every woman he meets, right³?? Now I do understand that there's absolutely a possibility this comes from an unreliable narrator and that's kind of what I assumed, it almost reads as parody of how men talk about women, but I can't really tell⁴. Is this just how (some) straight men genuinely view women? Is this just a problem with this guys works? And I will add on I do believe there's the possibility I'm being a prude, just y'know want to know if when thinking about the book and the themes and whatever if this was an intentional choice or if the author was just horny since y'know it's important to have context behind an author if you want to analyze their works

TL;DR Can't tell if the misogony in the book is intentional or not, still love the novel and can look past it if it's just a flaw, and totally get if I could just be being a prude by thinking it's gross

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¹ Important note it is my first horror novel

² Just simplified my gender and sexual identity for this post. Nobody cares that I did just putting this footnote for full transparency since gender and sexuality is important when talking about views on this stuff

³ Mainly exaggerating here

⁴ Autism