Kathy Apple answers “I'm 80 pages in - - this was written in...”

Jennifer asked this question about Mila 18:

I'm 80 pages in - - this was written in the 60s for obviously a male audience - - but anyone else in 2019 finding the overpowering masculinity and total objectification of women a problem? Also - - do brothers really slap their sister's behinds? 'Cause ew. I kind of feel like Im reading Gone with the Wind, trying to read over the blatant misogyny.

Kathy Apple Maybe you should read more books like this so that you can learn something about how things were before "political correctness" and idiot liberal idea…moreMaybe you should read more books like this so that you can learn something about how things were before "political correctness" and idiot liberal ideas made everything unacceptable. Yes, brothers did really slap their sister's behinds...there was nothing wrong with it. There is nothing "ew" about it, even today...except in your own filthy liberal mind. And as for reading "over the blatant misogyny" in Gone With the Wind...I'll just say, in my opinion, your liberal "education" is, once again, letting you down. You can't apply today's idiot liberal standards to a different period in time. You will not learn or understand anything about history if you stupidly try to "read over" what makes the book authentic. Times were different. Trying to apply today's foolish standards like your silly ideas of misogyny to the years of the Civil War is ludicrous. With all due respect, you're a fool, unwilling, or unable, to understand that times are different. And your remark about Mila 18 being written for "obviously a male audience" is absurd. Of course the book was NOT written for "obviously a male audience". Those are your own limitations which you are placing on yourself. That's your problem. Try to get past your liberal "victimology" and learn something. Honestly, try opening your mind instead of limiting everything to the narrow liberal view. Learn from your reading...don't try to fit it into today's idiocy.(less)

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