So, there’s this blog called Stop John Green, with the description “I won’t rest until John Green stops writing his shitty portrayal of young girls.” She (I’m going to assume it’s a woman) has only posted two things so far, as she seems to have made her blog in February. The first one has this lovely offering concerning Looking for Alaska:
…except looking for alaska is one of the most vile and misogynistic pieces of fiction ever written. i cannot believe that people still have this unhealthy obsession with riding john green’s pretentious cock.
first of all, the man is a known misogynist. how can you be a woman and fucking support the shit that he writes about women? how can you be a woman and read his books and not be infuriated that the only women he can fucking write are manic pixie dreamgirls. he can try and say he’s trying to MAKE A POINT, but the only point he’s making is that women in his books are there to be coveted sexual objects for lonely nerd boys.
if john green could write a book in which a young girl is simply a young girl who does not die, is not sick, is not someone’s manic pixie dream girl, i would be shocked. but that will never happen, because to assholes like john green, women are sexual objects.
and don’t get me started on his fucking slut-shaming and the negative things he says about women like paris hilton.
hey john green? you’re a man. stop spreading your hate against women. go back to your mother’s basement, you fucking neckbeard.
First of all, how is he a known misogynist? Is there a grand misogyny compilation of people who are guilty of committing it, of which he is among the top ten?
Secondly, to imply that women should be written as characters who don’t die, don’t get sick, or generally don’t have any other kind of aspect that makes them, I don’t know, human, is kind of counterproductive because there are PLENTY of written works out there that portray women as these static characters with no room for growth.
(Besides, if this blogger knew anything at all, she’d know that in An Abundance of Katherines, the lead female doesn’t die, isn’t sick, and isn’t manic. Further, in Will Grayson, Will Grayson, although admittedly not entirely written by Green, there also aren’t any of these aforementioned problems.)
It’s also hilarious that she says that John Green only sees women as sexual objects, especially when the book she is railing against is Looking for Alaska, the book that provided the memorable “drizzle/hurricane” quote, which Pudge explicitly prefaced by saying about Alaska, “I wanted so badly to lied down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase.”
So keeping that in mind, who can look at that and say “Oh that was clearly written by a misogynist, slut-shaming 34-year-old man.” ?
(Source: legendofaconsultinghoneybadger)
