"A billion husbands are about to be replaced.
"This is the label line of the very effective vibrator brand in Chuck Palahniuk's latest novel," Beautiful You.
"After the launch of these innovative entertainment products, the female characters began to fight stereotypes --of-the-
"Men are out of date ! "
"Anything a man can do to me, I can do better ! "
"This big piece of plastic is more like a man than you will ever be ! "
Women lined up for miles and camped out for the night outside the "beautiful you" store hoping to get the latest toes
The curling products haven't been sold yet.
Fashion, cosmopolitan "Sex and City" is everywhere, they are wearing high heels at the foot of the town stom, boldly carrying a bag with a brand logo, on the pink background, there is a new symbol of white curlicue giving women power.
This is the ultimate horror story for the wounded little oneBoys everywhere.
But then things get darker: women start to completely quit public life, lock themselves in the room and waste time.
Their voices are sore by endless joy, their eyes are sunken by lack of sleep, and their bodies are weak and thin by not eating.
There are posters of "missing" everywhere in the town, dozens of women-
Mother, sister, daughter-
Disappear from home, driven by the previously unknown happiness.
In a typical Palahniuk gotcha, it turns out that beautiful You products are actually designed to control women's consumption decisions.
That's what Palahniuk's novels are all set up, isn't it? After all the stories about men who are unhappy with their mothers, here we are already after what we call-
The era of feminism: men are replaced by vibrators.
Palahniuk was very happy when writing this fantasy article
In this world, the sexual liberation of women ultimately loses power.
For example, the most important feminist organization in the world is "on the verge of non-existence ".
He wrote: "Due to the lack of participants, the annual meeting was canceled for the first time in the history of the national women's organization.
The roster was almost full six weeks ago, but in the days of the beautiful you release, all delegates canceled their plans to participate.
Some people say they want to pursue more personal interests.
Others claim to be exploring alternative ways of selffulfillment.
"This dreamy fable reminds people of the male favorite insult.
Feminist troll: You're just not getting fucked!
If you just play a good ball, then the angry radicalism will go away!
It looked like a male nightmare at first, and it ended up feeling more like a male revenge story.
Since most women have disappeared from the streets, the fear of rape by the heroine in her 20 s seems to lurk in every corner
Penny Harrigan, a rare woman who is not caught by the beautiful you, dares to venture into the public domain full of "angry, dated penises.
In fact, Penny was raped many times.
The novel opens with a rape scene in which she was attacked in public. -via a high-tech device --
Because there are only men around, there is no one to help.
(Apparently all of them are very angry with their outdated penis and they can only stand.
) Palahniuk referred to the book as a "battle club" for women, but in fact there is no comparison.
"Beautiful You" will not resonate with a large number of women as the "Battle Club" treats men.
This is because it does not satisfy the desire of women. -
Although on the surface at least the beginning is about women's happiness.
Instead, it's centered. -
Like most books in Fight Club and Palahniuk ---
Men are extremely anxious.
This is his expertise: in the company, in capitalism and after-
American feminist
He seems to be trying to promote mass gender to women --
The identity crisis proved so successful in a group of men in Fight Club: Penny chose a legal profession from peers equal to feminists
Pressure: "Society has encouraged her to stay a few generations ago --at-home mom.
Now all the pressure is to be a lawyer. Or a doctor.
Or rocket scientist.
Later, Palahniuk wrote, "Apologies to Simone de Beauvoir, Penny doesn't want to be the third --wave anything.
No offense to Bella Abzug, but she doesn't want to be a post eitheranything.
She doesn't want to replicate Susan B's victory.
Anthony and Helen Gley Brown
Women of "beautiful you" feel dragged down by the opportunities that feminists have won for them: "They all inherit the legacy of freedom, they should open up a new field for the next generation of young women in the future.
"In this novel, the first female president of the United States is not interested in the role, only to rise to this position with the insistence of a man (hahaha Haile Keita)
Lucky for him and his fans, the book simply explores these so-called female anxieties.
First of all, it revolves around feelings unrelated to men, especially fear of women's desires ---
Like a vagina.
Actually, it's like: These amazing sex toys sneak into the female vagina with a device that pierces the penis!
There is not enough exclamation mark in the world.
) It was the people of Russia and Freud. up things.
Now, the "Beautiful You" is undoubtedly a ridiculous irony.
But, to be precise, it is difficult to understand this as a successful irony of resentment against toxic men and men.
Especially considering that Palahniuk's work is very popular among male rights activists, their own work is often so extreme that it looks like a parody in less popular times.
The fact that Palahniuk is gay makes things more complicated.
Yes, the King of straight. dude-
Gay rights are denied to literary works.
It's hard to say how consistent Palahniuk's personal views are with the brother's population, and it's hard to say that his writing is a parody of it.
It is clear, however, that, to some extent, Palahniuk himself has something to do with the narrative of male deprivation of rights.
In a recent Tumblr Q & A, he mentioned the "lack of fiction to explore male issues ".
When the reader responds with his tongue --in-cheek follow-
Palahniuk responded in good faith and thanked him for "standing up for male writers, an extremely marginalized group", apparently unaware of the irony of the sentence.
Or, to give another example, in his 2001 novel, "choking," the following male growled: "I mean, I'm just tired of just being a man all the time
I mean, how many times before you give up being an enemy, everyone can tell you that you are an enemy of oppression, prejudice.
I mean, a big male pig is not born, he is made by women, and more pigs are made by women.
"I won't try to use this passage to determine the intention of Palahniuk, but I can take the risk with confidence that his fans won't read it as a sarcastic criticism.
No matter how you look at the actual artistic intent of palanick, he proves an incredible ability to take advantage of the current emotions of a very special, alienated male group ---
This is the reason why this book has become terrible.