"She regarded the token male Lee as a dull-witted, penile one-trick pony (to her, consistency was evidence of a mind standing erect), while women were polymath geniuses until proven otherwise."
— Zink, Nell (b. 1964)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Harper Collins
Date
2015
Metaphor
"She regarded the token male Lee as a dull-witted, penile one-trick pony (to her, consistency was evidence of a mind standing erect), while women were polymath geniuses until proven otherwise."
Metaphor in Context
And she wasn't even on the editorial board! She was too busy running her film festivals and writing an honor's thesis on Warren Beatty's ass in Shampoo. She told him Marge Piercy's poetry was more emotionally available than his and thus more radical. This girl's lesbianism didn't mean she slept with women. Quite the opposite. She believed men were necessary sex objects, while whatever drove her to manipulate girls into banding together to do her will was a higher, sacred form of libido. She regarded the token male Lee as a dull-witted, penile one-trick pony (to her, consistency was evidence of a mind standing erect), while women were polymath geniuses until proven otherwise. Lee fantasized about accidentally fucking her to death. Not as a sexual fantasy, just as a way of seeing her dead that he might be able to pass off as an accident.
(p. 96)
(p. 96)
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Reading
Citation
Nell Zink, Mislaid (New York: Harper Collins, 2015).
Date of Entry
01/08/2016
