God should have made girls lethal when he made monsters of men
February 22, 2018 8:48 AM Subscribe
An interview with Carmen Maria Machado at Autostraddle.
Previously...
a discussion from 2017 of her story, The Husband Stitch.
a discussion from 2017 on the future of the body that links her article, The Trash Heap Has Spoken
a discussion from 2016 on the erasure of women's writing
a discussion from 2015 on the video game Gone Home
a discussion from 2015 on her article A Girl's Guide to Sexual Purity
Previously...
a discussion from 2017 of her story, The Husband Stitch.
a discussion from 2017 on the future of the body that links her article, The Trash Heap Has Spoken
a discussion from 2016 on the erasure of women's writing
a discussion from 2015 on the video game Gone Home
a discussion from 2015 on her article A Girl's Guide to Sexual Purity
Start with her Law & Order: SVU parody and just keep going from there.
posted by Cash4Lead at 9:02 AM on February 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by Cash4Lead at 9:02 AM on February 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
Dropping by to recommend the Husband Stitch, which is also incredible. I'd totally watch an anthology TV series based on her collection. (Where's the takemymoney.gif when you need it, haha)
posted by orangutan at 9:10 AM on February 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by orangutan at 9:10 AM on February 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
I haven't loved a short story collection so much since St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves.
posted by redsparkler at 9:27 AM on February 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by redsparkler at 9:27 AM on February 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
i'm outwardly male and the exhaustion from masculinity that she describes resonates so much with me, the exhaustion from all the so-damned-hard-to-change habits of living that, from being surrounded by it, from feeling how everything is shoved around by it (especially in a city like NYC)
posted by kokaku at 9:45 AM on February 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by kokaku at 9:45 AM on February 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
God should have made girls lethal when he made monsters of men.
I'm pretty sure God did exactly that. Believing otherwise is the mindkiller.
posted by rokusan at 10:41 AM on February 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
I'm pretty sure God did exactly that. Believing otherwise is the mindkiller.
posted by rokusan at 10:41 AM on February 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
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posted by Halloween Jack at 12:37 PM on February 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
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posted by Halloween Jack at 12:37 PM on February 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
I know this post is about more than the pull quote in the title, but for an interesting take on what it would be like if grils where literally lethal, you could do worse than read The Power by Naomi Alderman.
posted by signal at 12:56 PM on February 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by signal at 12:56 PM on February 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
she wrote a frickin love letter to Gone Home in the LARB?
what rock have I been under that I haven't heard of her and is that why I am so pale and flat
posted by runt at 1:27 PM on February 22, 2018
what rock have I been under that I haven't heard of her and is that why I am so pale and flat
posted by runt at 1:27 PM on February 22, 2018
I just started reading the power, good stuff so far.
posted by BrotherCaine at 2:03 PM on February 22, 2018
posted by BrotherCaine at 2:03 PM on February 22, 2018
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