Well, it's true that there's a lot of misogyny, but it's not the author's. The first/main POV character, Willem, is clearly misogynistic, as you say, but then, he's also an asshole. The piece even says so explicitly. And he has equally assholish thoughts about foreigners, fat people, policemen, and pretty much the entire human race.
And the second POV character is a sociopathic high-class hitman who doesn't care who the people he kills are, and is described as equally cold about killing either gender.
So I'd argue that the piece itself is not misogynistic. One of the characters is, and it's part of his characterization and clearly portrayed as negative.
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Date: 2011-05-08 01:49 am (UTC)And the second POV character is a sociopathic high-class hitman who doesn't care who the people he kills are, and is described as equally cold about killing either gender.
So I'd argue that the piece itself is not misogynistic. One of the characters is, and it's part of his characterization and clearly portrayed as negative.