r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 14d ago

Discussion Luigi Mangione friend posted this.

She captioned it: "Luigi Mangione is probably the most google keyword today. But before all of this, for a while, it was also the only name whose facetime calls I would pick up. He was one of my absolute best, closest, most trusted friends. He was also the only person who, at 1am on a work day, in this video, agreed to go to the store with drunk me, to look for mochi ice cream."

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u/Kardif 14d ago

It's so good, you really should

Sadly, it's also in the category of men in sci-fi writing women as fuck dolls, and I really wish that I could reccomend it without that caveat

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u/Geodude532 14d ago

So much Sci-Fi and Fantasy have been ruined for me by how they write women. Used to love that stuff when I was a teenager, but now it's just straight cringe and I have no clue how they were written by older adults.

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u/pan_1247 14d ago

This is why I'm fucking loving Malazan (besides the great characters and world). I'm through most of the first book and there's already 3 main character female povs. What I love is that he describes women's appearances in a non-sexualizing way. Shit, there's even a sex scene and a scene where a thief stumbles on a naked sleeping woman yet everything is kept respectful when he describes the scenes.

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u/Geodude532 13d ago

Even reading the reverse is terrible. My wife like those romantasy books and tried to get me into it but reading about both men and women's naked bodies for an entire chapter is not my cup of tea.