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I disagree. It sounds more to me like "I haven't thought about this much, but I caught a wind of someone who might be casting judgement upon me or people like m
by quesera 5y ago
I disagree. It sounds more to me like "I haven't thought about this much, but I caught a wind of someone who might be casting judgement upon me or people like me (those of us who haven't thought about it much). I do not like this, and rather than thinking about it, I'm going to mock the idea." ... which is all too common.
IMO, legit questions:
- Is Sylvia Plath defined by her death? Or just by the tragedy she wrote about, and lived?
- Is she thought of differently due to her sex, or to the very dramatic way (and circumstances under which) she took her life?
I lean toward this not being sexist as much as circumstantial. There's something about "killed self with gas in sealed room next to sleeping children" that strikes people as more tragic than "killed self with shotgun alone in mansion" -- i.e. the first sounds more like protracted desperation, and the second might be an act of brief despair. Of course the truth (such as we know it) is more complicated than that, but complication doesn't survive contact with general awareness.
- at_a_remove 5y agoWell, rather than "sounds like" you could always ask the parent commenter if they are being dismissive because they are worn out of the topic. Why not do so? I used to hang in some very lefty circles and nothing makes me mentally check out of a conversation now more than those sorts of angles, because everything we talked about just ... went that direction.
- lovemenot 5y agoThey actually said "sounds more like to me". Two unmentioned qualifiers.
- atatatat 5y ago> the first felt that suicide was their only option, whereas the second could have acted in a brief moment of despair. Please consider that you have no concept of the brain chemistry imbalances that can be the cause of suicide. What actions you choose don't necessarily have an anchor to what panic or pain is inside of you.
- quesera 5y agoI think I edited to clarify before you commented, but it might have been a casualty of page-load-delayed-read. I agree with you.