I will also note that every person I know irl who has read it is a woman, and I know a surprising number of ppl who have read it. It is a book men lie about reading, yes, but apparently it is a book women actually read!!

I read it when I was 17 and it kind of exploded what literature could be for me! My wife and I bonded over both loving it! Yes it is a fucked up novel (it is racist and misogynist and DFW had some Damage about trans women) but also regrettably it is one of the great books and you should read it

as i think many women my age do, i have profoundly mixed feelings about late obama era pop feminism. but i think one thing we forget too quickly was that it was very, very weird

honestly it was a delightful experience walking around the block even independent of thinking of this joke. i kept expecting the toilet stores to end but they didn't! "toilet alley," the locals call it

Oh my god it was right after the chorus dropped too