Yes, she gets to fuck chad. It costs her more than it is worth. Short-term gain for long-term pain.
She's looking for love, and she finds sex. Every time she uses tinder, she becomes that much more convinced she is unlovable.
But, well, Caino masochiens.
She keeps using tinder because self-harm is the point. The fact hot sex is involved is the sugar on the poison pill. The sweeter it is, the more she can mutilate herself without reflexively recoiling. She would just hold her hand on the stove if the pesky flesh wasn't so weak. Maybe dab caustic lye on her hand, like fight club dude.
I shouldn't say it doesn't work. That's the lightside narrative. Everything is working as intended. Feminism makes female happiness plunge, and that's what women want. Gets her away from men of Darwinism and their icky care-for-women reflexes.
last night i read first book of the short sun and i think i am not going to read the others. there was no payout in the end. the only payout was realization that the main character is not an especially evil man, but an especially common man. he is awful, but also, the average man is awful.
ReplyDeleteoccurred to me since i'd been looking into certain manga for "What Exactly Is A Woman Moment" that short sun is a book about a Man Moment. the existence of such a thing should at least be strongly suspected but i don't think i've ever seen anyone talk about it. my current model is,
'women lie so others think highly of themselves, so that they think highly of her'
'men lie so he thinks highly of himself, so that others think highly of him'
i dunno if it lines up with the thing commonly referred to as "woman moment" but it's obvious this is a primary mechanic behind "Social Status", which has always been a thing but no one ever told me how it works in a way that sounds like how things worked.