In my experience, most young men will put Kurt Vonnegut in their online dating profile. I don't know why. Mostly men are the ones who like his writing, because he's a whiny misogynist and women respond to that less positively, but why so many of those men feel the need to advertise him especially I don't know.
I dislike Vonnegut's writing enough that he's actually a dealbreaker for me: his work embodies so much of what I find distasteful that I probably won't date a man if he likes it. When I was on match.com this was a problem, because I kept reading profiles and then getting to the Kurt Vonnegut mention and having to move on, and it was a huge waste of time. I tried to increase the signal-to-noise ratio by advertising on my profile that I hate Kurt Vonnegut, but that just made things worse: I was inundated by letters from men asking How can you hate Kurt Vonnegut??? This is literally why I gave up on Internet dating sites -- because of Kurt Vonnegut.
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This is literally why I gave up on Internet dating sites -- because of Kurt Vonnegut.
Hahahahha, that's wonderful. Since I have never read him, I cannot comment, but I should add that yes, the aforementioned interests are in terms of men I am matched with, not women.
Hmm, I wonder how much implicit condonement of misogyny I can handle, then... I do tend to get into debates with the men I am dating about misogyny, I had not previously thought to consider Vonnegut a symptom/source!
He is slightly misogynist. That comes through in his important fiction. But Man without a country was a very good read. Perhaps it's on par with a Susan Sontag book in terms of academic quality, but it certainly does not purport to be anything but the semi-autobiographical ramblings of geriatric obstinacy (unlike Sontag's last book). For that I think he is marginally redeemed.
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I dislike Vonnegut's writing enough that he's actually a dealbreaker for me: his work embodies so much of what I find distasteful that I probably won't date a man if he likes it. When I was on match.com this was a problem, because I kept reading profiles and then getting to the Kurt Vonnegut mention and having to move on, and it was a huge waste of time. I tried to increase the signal-to-noise ratio by advertising on my profile that I hate Kurt Vonnegut, but that just made things worse: I was inundated by letters from men asking How can you hate Kurt Vonnegut??? This is literally why I gave up on Internet dating sites -- because of Kurt Vonnegut.
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Hahahahha, that's wonderful. Since I have never read him, I cannot comment, but I should add that yes, the aforementioned interests are in terms of men I am matched with, not women.
Hmm, I wonder how much implicit condonement of misogyny I can handle, then... I do tend to get into debates with the men I am dating about misogyny, I had not previously thought to consider Vonnegut a symptom/source!
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