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3.25 Liu was able to hold back on overt sexist commentary until the last story. Detailed dives into narrow points of imagination. He can't conceive of worlds where leaders aren't men, where justice and art thrive together, where god-like entities have more emotional intelligence than insecure, petulant babies.
“The Village Teacher” ★★★½
“The Time Migration” ★★★
“2018-04-01” ★★★
“Fire In The Earth” ★★★
“Contraction” ★★★
“Mirror” ★★★
“Ode To Joy” ★★★
“Full Spectrum Barrage Jamming” ★★½
“Sea of Dreams” ★★★
“Cloud of Poems” ★★★
“The Thinker” ★★½
“What the Dead Man Said” by Chinelo Onwualu ★★★
“Delhi” by Vandana Singh ★★★★
“The Wheel of Samsara” by Han Song ★★
“Xingzhou” by Ng Yi-Sheng ★★★
“Prayer” by Taiyo Fujii ★★
“The Green Ship” by Francesco Verso ★★½
“Eyes of the Crocodile” by Malena Salazar Maciá ★★★
“Bootblack” by Tade Thompson ★★★½
“An Incomplete Guide to Understanding the Rose Petal Infestation Associated With EverTyphoid Patients in the Tropicool IcyLand Urban Indian Slum” by Kuzhali Manickavel ★★★½
“Prime Meridian” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia ★½
“If At First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again” by Zen Cho ★★★★★
“The Vetala's Song” by Anuja Varghese ★★★½
“#WWMD?” by jaye simpson ★★★
“Gruesome My Love” by Levi Cain ★★★
“Glamour-Us” by Andrew Wilmot ★★★
“And the Moon Spun Round like a Top” by Hiromi Goto ★★★½
“The Minotaur and Theseus (and Other Bullshit)” by Ben Rawluk ★★★½
“Strange Case” by Eddy Boudel Tan ★★★
“In Our Own Image” by Matthew J. Trafford ★★★
“Ghosts of Pride Past” by Cicely Belle Blain ★★½
“The Call” by David Ly ★★★
“Like Me” by Daniel Zomparelli ★★½
“The Many Lives of an Abiku” by Tobi Ogundiran ★★★
“A Love Song for Herkinal as composed by Ashkernas amid the ruins of New Haven” by Chinelo Onwualu ★★★
“Are We Ourselves?” by Michelle Mellon ★★½
“The Goatkeeper's Harvest” by Tobi Ogundiran ★★½
“Baba Klep” by Eugen Bacon ★½
“The Friendship Bench” by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu ★★★
“The Front Line” by WC Dunlap ★★★½
A shambles, outside of writing about her personal history. Misogynist yardsticks aren't reclaimable and don't depose the male gaze. Exudes not-like-other-girls vibes in distorting consequence for cause in prizing masculinity and maligning femininity. Haphazard groundless arguments including aligning with MRA posturing, plural Julie Delpy-style white woman statements (‘It's harder to be a woman than to be Black'), a parade of astonishingly bizarro world misfires.
When President Sarkozy demands a police presence in schools or Ségolène Royal instructs the army to patrol certain areas of major cities, they are not showing children a virile embodiment of the law but the extension of the mother's absolute power.
Quand Sarkozy réclame la police dans l'école, ou Royal l'armée dans les quartiers, ça n'est pas une figure virile de la loi qu'ils introduisent chez les enfants, mais la prolongation du pouvoir absolu de la mère.
...women would do well to consider the advantages of men becoming active fathers, rather than simply to content themselves with having power bestowed on them politically through the exaltation of maternal instinct.
...les femmes auraient intérêt à mieux penser les avantages de l'accession des hommes à une paternité active, plutôt que profiter du pouvoir qu'on leur confère politiquement, via l'exaltation de l'instinct maternel.
After several years of genuine, sincere, and rigorous research, I have come to the conclusion that femininity is the same thing as bootlicking. The art of servility.
Après plusieurs années de bonne, loyale et sincère investigation, j'en ai quand même déduit que : la féminité, c'est la putasserie. L'art de la servilité.
I am not saying that being a woman is in itself a painful constraint. Some women do it very well. It's the obligation which is degrading. Of course the great seductresses are right up there in terms of reputation. Figure skaters are pretty cool, too—but no one expects us all to be figure skaters. Horsewomen have their own special charm—but you don't get given a saddle and bridle the moment you want to exist.
Je ne dis pas qu'être une femme est en soi une contrainte pénible. Il y en a qui font ça très bien. C'est l'obligation qui est dégradante. Les grandes séductrices, évidemment que c'est le top du hip-hop, en matière de divinités locales. Patineuses artistiques aussi, c'est classe. On ne nous demande pas d'être toutes patineuses pour autant. Ecuyères, aussi, ça a son charme. On ne te ramène pas une selle et un cheval du moment que tu veux exister.
The writing and pacing have momentum but the content is thwarting. The mythology is preposterously systemless and does not stretch imaginative potential to not be a mirror world full of patriarchy. Intimate moments and observations are equally inconsistent regarding character relationships, and all conflict is resolved with violence.
