Waiter Rant

[annissamazing]

I used to love reading Waiter Rant. And then he posted this today and it is so full of misogyny that I couldn't finish it. I left a comment, which I felt was polite, but it was not accepted. Feh.

Comments

[garillama.livejournal.com]

I was with that for most of the story, but the portrayal of the woman made me really uncomfortable (and that wasn't Willem's POV). It was so shallow and stereotypical. Yup, every woman who has promiscuous sex feels like she "dies a little" every time she gets laid. And then tells that to the guy she just slept with who she's trying to kick out. WTF?

I'll probably keep reading him, but I'm not too impressed with his fiction writing. I suppose everyone need practice, though.

[yamx]

*shrugs* She's not every woman, though. She's one woman. Showing her this way isn't meant to make us think all women who have promiscuous sex feel that way any more than having Willem be an asshole is supposed to make us think all waiters are assholes.

In fact, her kicking him out seem less like actual characterization to me than like a plot device: the author needs her to kick him out right after or the whole "time of death matches taxi" conceit won't work anymore.

I'm not impressed with the story, either (see my long comment below), but what we're seeing here is, imo, weak characterization (of everyone), not misogyny.