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lol you're a man right lolol this is a classic "psuedo intellectual" defense. like oh right, we just didn't GET it. the sex scenes weren't really sex you guys!! problem solved. I hope your views have evolved in the past 6 years.
Idk, I don't think this was a pseudo-intellectual defense (it isn't an intellectual defense at all). I only found this question and these comments because I googled, "Why is Murakami obsessed with incest and rape?" It seems pretty common to see people explain it away as being an aspect of the story, which is why I don't think it is pseudo-intellectual or intellectual, but why is it an aspect of basically every novel he writes? Writing it off as being a part of the story and not being about the sex/rape/incest/etc. doesn't answer the question as to why he constantly uses the same scenes in all of his novels.
The flip-side of this, too many people take it at face value and say he's a pedophile or justifying rape-without asking why he might be doing that. You can ask why the author is doing something without defending him doing it. He isn't a pedophile or a rapist, or an enabler of either, by writing about these subjects.
TL:DR Dude's answer didn't even address the question asked by the OP and just used the same excuse as everyone else that excuses Murakami.
Aside, I saw you started Pedagogy of the Oppressed, it is a really good text. More teachers/professors should read it.
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Sep 29, 2020 05:53PM
lol you're a man right lolol this is a classic "psuedo intellectual" defense. like oh right, we just didn't GET it. the sex scenes weren't really sex you guys!! problem solved. I hope your views have evolved in the past 6 years.
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Idk, I don't think this was a pseudo-intellectual defense (it isn't an intellectual defense at all). I only found this question and these comments because I googled, "Why is Murakami obsessed with incest and rape?" It seems pretty common to see people explain it away as being an aspect of the story, which is why I don't think it is pseudo-intellectual or intellectual, but why is it an aspect of basically every novel he writes? Writing it off as being a part of the story and not being about the sex/rape/incest/etc. doesn't answer the question as to why he constantly uses the same scenes in all of his novels.The flip-side of this, too many people take it at face value and say he's a pedophile or justifying rape-without asking why he might be doing that. You can ask why the author is doing something without defending him doing it. He isn't a pedophile or a rapist, or an enabler of either, by writing about these subjects.
TL:DR Dude's answer didn't even address the question asked by the OP and just used the same excuse as everyone else that excuses Murakami.
Aside, I saw you started Pedagogy of the Oppressed, it is a really good text. More teachers/professors should read it.
