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I think it's a valid political complaint considering the role of the book in the world but I don't think it's a valid literary complaint because men (and groups
by guerrilla 5y ago
I think it's a valid political complaint considering the role of the book in the world but I don't think it's a valid literary complaint because men (and groups of men) write some books and women (and groups of women) write other books and neither are bad for the reason that they are written by only one gender. If the latter were true, then all books written by groups of women are also bad, which is absurd.
- orange8 5y agoMy point exactly. I don't think politics has any place in this discussion. The request was for good book recommendations for everyone, not good book recommendations for republicans, christians, feminists etc
- guerrilla 5y agoI wouldn't go that far. I think one could make an argument that one should not recommend the Bible because of these reasons. It doesn't have to be a bad book to be a bad recommendation.
- laumars 5y agoThe issue here is you’ve focused on the political context and not on the actual reason I disagreed with the recommendation, which was: 1. It’s not authentic for a plethora of reasons (you disagree on that point, which is fine) 2. Even treating it’s stories as just stories, they can differ a lot from one translation to another. Even when you look at different versions of modern stories, at least the basic premise remains roughly the same. Some of the translations of the Bible change key events in hugely significant ways. Which then begs the question, which version of the Bible should one read? 3. It’s also just not well written by modern standards. It’s fine to disagree with some of the political context but you’re being disingenuous to my original post by distilling it down to an argument about gender and politics.