See with gwb I was in my early to mid 20s, married in 06 and just really focused on my little bubble and trying to get my life going. I was embarrassed by him, but I just didn’t care as much.

I’m starting to hope this way is actually better. All of the Republican primary candidates were racist, misogynist nightmares, but they didn’t all have “tremendous” closets full of skeletons.

I find it striking in all these articles that are coming out about him over the years how incredibly consistent his behavior has been over DECADES. Not (just) in denigrating women, but in how defensive he gets, the childish retaliation.

Some people choose party identification over their moral judgment. Other people have terrible moral judgment and only wish they had the power to be as racist, sexist, and overall terrible as Donald Trump. Other people are easily swayed and will support anything that promises a good show. We knew this. It’s just been…

One of my best guy friends in high school once told me that women are not as smart as men because there are almost no notable women throughout history who have accomplished anything important. Like, maybe there were two or so and one of those women was Eve.

Yes! I have very fond memories of listening to my lit professor give a smackdown to two of the most pretentious, Pynchon-obsessed dudes in one of my grad seminars on why they shouldn’t dismiss genre fiction out of hand after we had just read Lilith’s Brood.

I can only speak to my own field, but the physics prize is pretty garbage this year. The math those three outline is very interesting and might lead to something cool, but there are a lot of people who believe all the materials phenomena we’re looking at that are candidates are just surface effect garbage. In other…

White, male, American, boomer. Of course he won.

My position is always “anyone but Phillip Roth.”

HEY FRIEND. WOMEN DIDN’T START WRITING ONLY IN 1901. There have been women writers creating excellent literature since ages, maybe fewer in number but again, excellent and remarkable work. The fact that it is lesser in number contributes to men’s work being considered more important.

Eh, it’s more of a baby boomer thing than anything else.

You just answered my concern.

The Nobel Committee had a long documented history of sexism.

He recieved a Nobel prize because he’s a white male.

Buddy. Friend. look at the tweet embedded in the article. me saying women should have more that 14 out of the 144 nobels in lit is not the same as me asking for men to be blacklisted from the awards. but you stay feeling threatened, boo.

A group of mostly white men decided their favorite lyricist should be Nobel Laureate. His music speaks to the experience of older white men, so they contorted the category to suit him. And that folks is privilege in the most purely distilled, disgustingly oblivious form.

a. the idea that they should give it to a woman “just because” only makes sense if you think that the literary output of women is somehow inferior both on an individual and collective basis.

Dylan is a good writer, but yeah it seems like a stretch for PR which is just odd to me.

What’s really insulting is that they stretched the definition of the category in order to give it to a white man.