/lit/ - Literature

>>11713605
But honestly, if you made it through childhood without forming any behavioral / mood disorders against any particular adversity, you should absolutely be proud.
Few things I wouldn't give for a normal working brain.

>>11713605
But honestly, if you made it through childhood without forming any behavioral / mood against any particular adversity, you should absolutely be proud.
Few things I wouldn't give for a normal working brain.

I'm your average /lit/ denizen - early 20's, large book collection, into the classics... except that I'm not a man, and that makes all the difference in how I'm treated.

When I ask a certain (male) classmate a question about books or show my drafts, I often get a one-word answer and no further discussion. My boyfriend walks up to the same guy and he smiles at him, makes small talk and asks questions about what else he's into. I didn't notice this until my boyfriend pointed it out - I'm not seeking our reasons to be offended. Quite the contrary - I am so used to the sexism that it often doesn't register to me until someone else points it out to me.
Twice, when I have tried to join book groups men have frowned at me and asked me if my boyfriend got me into my hobby and why he isn't here tonight.
When I bring this up in /lit/, my posts are usually ignored, while the men who explain to me why I'm wrong about things that happened to me get many (you)s.

My mother went into a bookstore and asked if they had the complete Harry Potter anthology for a gift. The employee said, very slowly and carefully, as if she were a child, "Uh, we sell LITERATURE here." My boyfriend went to the same store a day later and asked about it and was immediately given what he was looking for, because of course they had Harry Potter. My mother has never been back to a bookstore, though.

>>11361919
BRAAAAAAAAAP

Oh god i hope she left brown stains
if only i could be that top book

I'm your average /lit/ board denizen - early 20's, large book collection, into the classics... except that I'm not a man, and that makes all the difference in how I'm treated.

1. When I ask a certain (male) classmate a question about books or show my drafts, I often get a one-word answer and no further discussion. My boyfriend walks up to the same guy and he smiles at him, makes small talk and asks questions about what else he's into. I didn't notice this until my boyfriend pointed it out - I'm not seeking our reasons to be offended. Quite the contrary - I am so used to the sexism that it often doesn't register to me until someone else points it out to me.

2. Twice, when I have tried to join book groups men have frowned at me and asked me if my boyfriend got me into my hobby and why he isn't here tonight.

3. When I bring this up in /lit/, my posts are usually ignored, while the men who explain to me why I'm wrong about things that happened to me get many (yous).

4. My mother went into a bookstore and asked if they had the complete Harry Potter anthology for a gift. The employee said, very slowly and carefully, as if she were a child, "Uh, we sell LITERATURE here." My boyfriend went to the same store a day later and asked about it and was immediately given what he was looking for, because of course they had Harry Potter. My mother has never been back to a bookstore, though.

5. I tend to dress conservatively. That definitely hasn't stopped men book groups from staring down my top or making comments about my body.

6. I stopped going to literature events events, more often than not, a man would make a comment about my gender and how it related to the books I was interested in, my ability to learn, or why I was at the event at all.

>>11330555
Benadryl trips are by far the most consistently interesting.

Also, in Gravity's Rainbow, Slothrop's sodium amytal trip where he goes on a turd voyage reads like an Erowid drug report.

BRAAAAAAAAAAP
i want to sniff that book
god i hope she left brown stains

>You will never smell that top book

Why even live

Why do girls pretend to like books?

What books can I read to get a girl like pic related?

How do I get a gf who likes to read?

Pic related this girl is in the chat