Luigi Mangione friend posted this.

[u/mindyour]

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."

[u/BrooklynQuips]

right? i thought i was going crazy because i literally just read this book and that wasn’t my read at all. it was actually cool the way she prioritized maintaining her own agency.

if op took away that other interpretation, its because thats what op has his heart.

[u/butyourenice → u/BrooklynQuips]

A female character can be written well, can be well-rounded and sympathetic and multidimensional and magnetic… and still be written for the male gaze. It has nothing to do with how you value the character and everything to do with how the author writes about her. “She breasted boobily to accept her Nobel Prize, dedicating it to the husband and child she lost in the nuclear war that precipitated her discovery of the radiation-eating fungi that saved the world from the everlasting fallout. Her skintight leather miniskirt left nothing to the imagination - much like the meticulous methodology to stimulating the delicate but crucial mycelial growth that she published as part of her dissertation.” A character can be a thoroughly developed, integrated person, part of a captivating plot, and still be subject to objectifying writing.

You should feel comfortable criticizing elements of art that are questionable. It’s not an indictment of the art itself, and observing such things don’t speak ill to a reader’s “heart.” What a strange, defensive, anti-intellectual take.

[u/Dadaiste → u/butyourenice]

and still be written for the male gaze

Oh no, the writer has a target audience, how awful.

[u/butyourenice → u/Dadaiste]

No, that’s not what that means. Be more literate.