Neo_prodigy silences a feminist critic
Over at LJ's inclusive_geeks community, korinna posts about neo_prodigy's misogyny, not only in his personal posts, but in his How To Write Slash posts and his published novel. She includes a large document of examples of his misogyny from the latter. Tee document can be downloaded here.

Why do you have to download it?

Because neo_prodigy responded like all good professionals to criticism and had LJ suspend the post, and when it was transferred to Wordpress, had that suspended as well..

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innervoice_chan
2011-08-19 09:43 am UTC (link)

The current problem with Freud and literature or cultural-studies classes is that a lot of the time, those classes still take him DEAD SERIOUSLY and take his word about penis envy or whatever as GOSPEL. I'm talking "a Freudian analysis of XYZ Story" with no one pointing out that "hey, you know how you think you're being all scientific and tying together the fields of literature and psychology? Well, no one in psychology takes Freud terribly seriously anymore..."

I will be SO GLAD if I live to see the day when literature classes study Freud as a deeply flawed text in a historical milieu, instead of taking him at his word and then using him to analyze other stuff.

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	mmanurere 2011-08-19 05:35 pm UTC (link)
	Maybe it's like how I'm used to seeing post-structuralism treated in critical-theory contexts: a bunch of people studying the process of bullshit-as-reality, and a smaller number who get it and are studying bullshit as something broadly mistaken for reality. My undergrad department, at least, tended towards the latter approach, which has actually been kinda useful. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cleolinda 2011-08-20 12:46 am UTC (link)
	The only way that works, as far as I can tell, is if the author him/herself believed in Freudian psychology (and you have, say, writings that attest to this), and thus the characters and themes and whatnot were created with that understanding. Just as pure "this is what people are like, so that's my analysis"? Yeah, no. (Reply to this)(Parent)

oxfordcomma
2011-08-30 05:29 am UTC (link)

Freudian analysis is bullshit when applied to people, but it tends to work much better for texts. Especially texts written by white dudes, and especially especially 19th and early 20th century ones. I tend to be deeply suspicious of Freudian analyses, but some of them are pretty persuasive. (Not the "Hamlet has an Oedipal complex" shit, though.)

*shrugs* Freud! What a dickbag.

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