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This article goes hard

Love from Kazakhstan

I hate women so much it's unreal

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It is hardly believable that this essay was written by Mishima. My doubt is raised by the BAP-infested language the translator here decided to use. No offense about BAP. I have also read and enjoyed his book, although making the giant that Mishima was sound like a copy of an imitation of BAP is hardly an honorable task.

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Jan 23·edited Jan 23

This is the most stupid essay I have read so far. That women are to blame for everything is just distortion of reality and nothing more. Someone fearing to lose his "superior" identity, when women are equal. Pathetic.

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As teens in Ireland during the noughties would say, "Gay!".

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An article which I couldn't help but smile and nod my head affectionately at every sentence.

However I must remark with a certain sadness that it seems to be a recurring trend from men who express such opinions to adopt a sexual lifestyle contained to members of their own sex. For all my esteem of Mishima, his homosexual tendencies do not square well with me. Montherland was incomparably worse, a sexual predator, a pederast. My attitude to such an individual is exterminationist, no matter what comes out of its mouth. Homosexuality might be perhaps a tolerable folly, but pedophilia deserves execution on the spot.

I think men who subscribe to such a negative opinion of women are guilty of holding overly high expectation of them in the first place. When women fail to meet such standards in whicever way, they immediately take to the extreme opposite. A woman is a human being and as such filled with failure and there's nothing wrong with pointing that out. But to go overboard and deny her in essence, on the fact of her flaws is a fundamentally erroneous view. Nothing in this world is perfect, and the Japanese out of all people in the world understand this. If it makes us feel better, then we can always remind ourselves that it is the lot of woman to suffer for her flaws on a daily basis. The incontrollable madness whose point of origin stems from between her legs, the monthly pains, the unspeakable agony of childbirth. Rather than badgering women which only serves to add to their suffering, let us therefore, be thankful and offer praise to the Creator every day that he has not placed us in their bodies.

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Thank you for this. I'm optimistic though that women will learn their place sooner than one might have reason to think:

https://claraschelling.substack.com/p/607

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