https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/books/goodreads-review-bombing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
>Cecilia Rabess figured her debut novel, “Everything’s Fine,” would spark criticism: The story centers on a young Black woman working at Goldman Sachs who falls in love with a conservative white co-worker with bigoted views.
>But she didn’t expect a backlash to strike six months before the book was published.
>In January, after a Goodreads user who had received an advanced copy posted a plot summary that went viral on Twitter, the review site was flooded with negative comments and one-star reviews, with many calling the book anti-Black and racist. Some of the comments were left by users who said they had never read the book, but objected to its premise.
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Let them destroy each other, hehehe
>le politics can control your hormones
Fricking KEK, trannies are getting too fricking crazy.
whitebros we can't let them do this to our kweenz
/ourBlack person/
haven't read it but i'd bet anything the "bigoted" guy eats the protag's pussy
sometimes it's great burden to be right about everything
Does someone expect black woman to not fantasize about white conservative man.
she made that bigoted cracka kneel and eat out her stinkbox. take that whitey
>Could he be?
In a terrible excerpt from a terrible book this stands out. Bravo, sheboon, bravo.
it gets very steamy
That reminds me
Would definitely mitigate this. As in just ask, people assume that things are ok if they are ok. It is just how things work.
This is something that I don't think I will ever be able to understand. Why people don't ask things that they want during sex?
The excerpt obviously describes the first time these two particular people had sex together.
And what does this have to do with anything? Why don't they fricking ask things? Does that kill the mood for women? They expect someone able to read their minds?
Apparently yes. See
Jesus, not like that, but ask things that you want and you expect someone to do them for you.
As a man you are expected to lead that b***h into everything. If you ask for a blowie or passionate lovemaking the b***h would never do it cause you come off as a needy dork.
>lead me to my own satisfaction
>I won't even bother trying to figure out what I want
How fricking entitled one has to be to act like that? How the frick did this shit started?
Read Sexual Personae
I'm not reading it, I honestly don't really care enough about it to read a book.
I might end up just asking someone and frick it, I tend to do that.
SP is about other books, though. You probably just mean the first chapter, but not a good book to suggest to anon about why women crazy.
Yeah
No wonder they complain about almost never having orgasms.
No shit moron
So why don't you tell them that?
>Why people don't ask things that they want during sex?
It gives girls "the ick."
I know, they like to be dominated and let someone else have control, but at that point, you don't have any right to complain. If they end up with some egotistical fricker that doesn't care, that is totally on you, for not bet assertive enough to demand what you want when you actually need it. Instead of complaining about it when it doesn't matter.
The fun thing about it is that I'm almost sure that if I told this to most women they would start looking at me as if I were some brute or whatever.
the demiurge really needs to make it less obvious that we're all in hell, this is just embarrassing
>Fountains erupt, a choir of angels sings an aria, and jess feels the earth tilt on its axis
They probably thought they were really fricking clever for writing that too.
truly a sentence men will never understand
Women describing sex in vivid detail is like a slug describing how much it loves sliding down a moist leaf
>His wetness parted her folds and the sun shone in the deep recesses of her yoni. Electric ripples of pleasure undulated through the chasms of her vastness and geysers spat forth fine mists on the dewy foothills of her ...
?????
>yoni
Look up yoni egg
That's just low IQs trying to be good writers. I knew a black guy who was the same. Anything intellectual came off as really tryhard, since he was probably 90 IQ but wished he was the bazinger guy.
It is somehow how orgasms feel for women. I don't think it is a bad description of it.
This shit is overly verbose like a manuel
All the Manuels I know just say stuff like
>sí
Manuels typically aren't verbose.
>present tense narration
It ain't working for me.
the way americans use the word "which" is a constant source of discomfort for me
Uh oh this hit too close to home for some of them.
>novel about how love and affection between individuals can bridge social and ethnic groups
>meets backlash from so-called ''progressives'' and ''philanthropes''
very surprising
Ummmmmm actually the HECKIN SCIENCE says couples with differing socio-political viewpoints have a higher rate of divorce than couples with similar socio-political viewpoints. Although the divorce rate for couples with similar socio-political viewpoints is still high, just not as high as differing viewpoints.
Soooooo ummmmmmm, the HECKIN SCIENCE say you're wrong sweetie :^)
>couples
That is more like an affair or whatever. "Forbidden" stuff is way hotter.
As in people, they fantasize, complain and do all sorts of discourse and whatever, but they don't seem to ask things.
I think it’s a little bit funny that they have an impression of Goldman Sachs that epitomizes the white, Anglo, racist rich trust-fund Republican stereotype they love to hate. I don’t think there’s been an analyst hired who isn’t East Asian or South Asian in probably 10 years.
Basically every book that’s meant to sell is a YA novel now.
freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. Go woke, go broke.
You can very often see the reverse happening on Goodreads too. That alleged industry plant YA novel Lightlark already has its sequel Nightbane listed on GR; it isn't going to be published until November yet it has a rating of 4.23 from a little over 200 ratings. Funnily enough that makes it her highest rated novel.
That said, I don't believe for a second that this kind of controversy would negatively affect a book's sales. They might claim otherwise, but YA and smut readers clearly get off on anything they consider fricked up or taboo. They can't pretend they have standards all of a sudden.
If this book didn't sell it's far more likely that all those suburban white girls on TikTok don't want to self-insert into a black protagonist whilst they self-insert their hairbrush.
>The story centers on a young Black woman working at Goldman Sachs who falls in love with a conservative white co-worker with bigoted views.
Maybe its possible that NOBODY CARES. This plot synopsis got worse with every single word. Would you read this book?
I love how book cancel culture is just bog standard high school girl behavior. Really reflects the state of the industry.
I'm just gonna say it, black people are so androgynous and ugly. The mainstream tries to gaslight everyone into thinking they're attractive but they just aren't. Gross hair that's all the same colour and texture, big puck lips, tiny little skulls with gaping nostrils, dark skin, etc.
I'm pretty sure most people know this subconsciously at the very least, too.
That's because you have racial bias. You think all black people look the same, that's what black people think of white people too. Most people don't care so much, as long as they're attractive. they're attractive. Then there are people like you, and also fetishists who like exotic looks. I am generally a pervert so can make most fetishes work for me.
No, Sub-Saharan Africans have the least phenotypic morphological complexity out of all the greater race groups. Not discussed in the ~~*literature*~~. Kys midwit.
>LET PEOPLE ENJOY THINGS
>NO, NOT THAT THING
Why are they like this?
The worst fate a book can have is to receive no reviews or attention. Getting ~~*cancelled*~~ or review-bombed is actually a blessing for an author in today's world. I'm sure she'll be fine.
>black woman writes a literary fiction novel about an Aunt Thomasina in the 21st century
>YA romance readers interpreted this as "this is a bad romance story that promotes and endorses racism"
YA romance readers confirmed to be as stupid as Starship Troopers and 1984 readers.
>literary fiction novel
Doubt
>The story centers on a young Black woman working at Goldman Sachs who falls in love with a conservative white co-worker with bigoted views.
Stopped reading there, she deserves the bad things happening to her.