Please don't read Cat person , by "NEW YORKER" or W/e

Ayyyyy · December 11, 2017 11:02 PM

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/11/cat-person/amp

Dont read it

cipher · December 12, 2017 12:20 AM

ok i wont then

soup · December 12, 2017 12:25 AM

can you give me the tl;dr i'm a filthy millennial with the attention span of concrete

Ayyyyy · December 12, 2017 01:18 AM

Quote from: soup on December 12, 2017 12:25 AM
can you give me the tl;dr i'm a filthy millennial with the attention span of concrete

Ok uhhh I barely remember what I read, it went something like:

>Girl meets guy
>Girl meets guy again
>Guy texts her
>Goes on date
>Girl is afraid of being murdered on drive to date
>Gets feelings for him
>Decide to go to an adult bar
>Girl gets thrown out
>Guy decides to take her home
>Girl is afraid of being murdered at his house
>"Sorry I'm a cat person"
>They're about to do it
>Girl is drunk
>Girl wants to back out of sex in her head!! LIKE RIGHT NOW!! OMG!!!
>They do it
>Guy blows his load over her ass, face and titties omg
>She leaves
>Makes up imaginary friend to laugh at how bad Guy was at sex
>Does not text
>Does not call
>Guy shows up at bar near her dorm
>Guy texts her several times
>Calls her a "whore"
>The end

The end.

soup · December 12, 2017 04:11 AM

hmm

Bamyasi · December 12, 2017 07:22 PM

Quote from: nuac_ on December 11, 2017 11:02 PM
Jew Yorker publishes shit fiction.

Stop the presses.

Will critique later.

Bamyasi · December 12, 2017 08:18 PM

Okay this wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. It's not a very good story but it is a great study of the contemporary sexual market. I think anyone who's been in a casual relationship with someone they didn't really like could see themselves in one party or the other, though obviously this would largely be split along gender lines. All women are a little bit like the narrator and all men are a little bit like Robert, minus specifics. It's biology.

Quote from: soup on December 12, 2017 12:25 AM
can you give me the tl;dr i'm a filthy millennial with the attention span of concrete

TL;DR: white girls not even once but that said I would seriously suggest reading it, though people like yourself and rtil in stable relationships have less to gain from it I imagine.

Bamyasi · December 12, 2017 11:46 PM

So weird part of this is that I'd actually read this story a month ago when it was sent to my mother's literary journal and she sent it to me.

I have absolutely zero recollection of reading it even though the .pdf is in my downloads folder so I must have been either very very drunk or it's just an extremely forgettable story unless there's controversy swirling around it. Or both.

Bamyasi · December 13, 2017 12:50 AM

I think I have a drinking problem and in a roundabout way this story has set me on the path to improvement.

Thank you New Yorker.

SrsSam77 · December 13, 2017 10:19 AM

Bamyasi more like AutismLassie

OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

soup · December 13, 2017 03:18 PM

i'll give it a read and report back, i've witnessed some absolutely catastrophic relationships over the past few years lmoa

BluPhoenix · December 13, 2017 08:01 PM

what even

Bamyasi · December 13, 2017 08:10 PM

Quote from: SrsSam77 on December 13, 2017 10:19 AM
OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

TikoTron · December 14, 2017 12:31 AM

This didn't need to exist

Bamyasi · December 14, 2017 12:35 AM

Story or thread.

A lot of young women seem to identify with the story so I'd suggest reading it. It's like a window into their minds that we don't often get uncensored.

TikoTron · December 14, 2017 01:23 AM

Quote from: Bamyasi on December 14, 2017 12:35 AM
Story or thread.

A lot of young women seem to identify with the story so I'd suggest reading it. It's like a window into their minds that we don't often get uncensored.

Possibly I've given up on dating girls? Getting tired of being seen as a threat/intimidate just cause I have possession of a penis.

Bamyasi · December 14, 2017 03:09 AM

That's fair.

I think the issue this story highlights is more the fact that both characters was treating the other like porn. He wanted "to fuck a girl with nice tits" and she liked "As they kissed, she found herself carried away by a fantasy of such pure ego that she could hardly admit even to herself that she was having it. Look at this beautiful girl, she imagined him thinking. She's so perfect, her body is perfect, everything about her is perfect, she's only twenty years old, her skin is flawless, I want her so badly, I want her more than I've ever wanted anyone else, I want her so bad I might die."

They're both toxic narcissists beyond salvation and will die alone. I wonder if the author was even aware of this. If not she's equally bad and knowing what her demo is like this is probably the case.

Ayyyyy · December 14, 2017 06:11 AM

I really hate this story. Liek who eats Red vines?

That ending was lol. I bet it was based off a real life experience..

Ayyyyy · December 14, 2017 06:11 AM

QuotePossibly I've given up on dating girls?

I wouldn't swear off an entire gender because someone in the new yorker wrote about them

TikoTron · December 14, 2017 03:39 PM

Quote from: nuac_ on December 14, 2017 06:11 AM
QuotePossibly I've given up on dating girls?
I wouldn't swear off an entire gender because someone in the new yorker wrote about them

This post from the New Yorker didnt convert me. I had this opinion long before and what Bam said about uncensored stuff just seems useless to me personaly because this just seems to be a stereotype and can't apply to the next girl you'll meet.