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In Hemingway and Gender the author has “the aim of revisiting the issue of
gender and its relationship to life writing,” bringing to bear the evanescent
and fleeting scholarship of “postmodernist biographical research” in order to
explode “the myth of masculinity by asserting that the writer’s gender
identity, the source of his psychological conflicts, was androgynous,” all in
an attempt to achieve the goals of the postmodernist desire to deconstruct
and deride western civilization, while attempting to normalize the
homosexual point of view.
By this point in the essay Hemingway and all men have allegedly lost
their virility as women are so strong that they have “regendered society,” not
needing men anymore, resulting in “a modern world dominated by the
inversion of gender roles and therefore…sterility.” Supposedly its “the
growing masculinization of women” brought on by WWI that results in “the
emasculation of men,” and Hemingway is beside himself with confusion as
his world is lost to modern times, not to the war(Reynolds). To support this
utter swill we go back to his childhood in Oak Park, Illinois, now listed as “a
synonym of morality and traditional values,” while claiming “It was his first
world, the world he lost, not to the war, but to modern times.”
So Hemingway lost his connection with the old world values at home
to modern times? The women with short hair were more powerful images
and had greater effect on the great author than the fierceness of war, being
exposed to swollen and bloated bodies on a battlefield, daily death and
destruction, seeing severed limbs and bloody mangled bodies? It is
suggested that all this pales in comparison to women having short hair which
somehow catapulted poor Ernest into limbo concerning gender and his own
identity. These suggestions and the opinions they represent are totally false
and ignore the horrible consequences and multiple effects of war, while
substituting a minor point in a story to attempt to convince others of
Hemingway’s androgyny and confusion. If it were true it would be terrible
as now we supposedly have a world of emasculated, sterile men who are not
sure of their gender. This supposition is outrageous at best and has no
supporting evidence
Somehow all this gender confusion coalesced and forced him to write
of manly topics instead of writing about home, where allegedly his father
“Ed is nervous, weak, cowardly and insecure,” while “Grace is firm, strong,
daring and domineering.” He and his father have been emasculated by this
womanly power so Hemingway lashed out and did stuff that men do, not
because he is a manly man, but because he is confused about gender and
actually wants to be homosexual? At this point I wonder if I am making it
up. Haven’t I really read an essay that in all honesty was well written and
researched and documented to the hilt with proper footnotes and sources?
Yes I have and it is, but I find myself questioning how many of the authors
of the cited works are gay, if you will, as all this transgender material is new
and confusing to me and the word homosexual is becoming tiresome. But
the point is that “biographies play a key role in helping a nation understand
itself and its identity, and “”to reinforce its own structure and values.”” In
the present case the form of biography has been used to redress(not cross
dress) the essay’s author and sources’ life style by fostering it upon an
American great, meaning his body of work not how he lived, and therefore
negating the sublimations they so desperately desire. Perhaps we could call
these sources reverse sublimations in the psychological sense, leaving that
for which is its natural use, which may sound familiar to those so versed.
I will skip some of the other points concerning Ruskin and Ellis
because I do not think they warrant refutation other than the purely turgid
and horridly filthy conception that “Rain, urine and semen share a unique
origin(Ellis), an idea that must have been lurking behind the writing of a
story like “Cat in the Rain.”” The only thing lurking here is a small group of
intellectuals of the homosexual bent, trying to gender bend where there is
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nothing to work with. That story is simply about a failed relationship, the
girl sees herself as a cat in the rain, that is the crux, no piss and absolutely no
semen, just rain and a failed relationship. This attack on “Cat in the Rain” is
perversity in all its glory, reaching into the hinterlands of unsoundness of
mind and beyond.
Almost done but not quite as the next assault comes with the subtlety
of a grenade blast as we read “Yet the story does not easily yield to one-
sided interpretation on the basis of Hemingway’s complex perversions.” I
must pause to here to overcome the shell shock, as now he has exhibited
perversions to the perverts! I do agree the story does not yield itself to one
sided interpretation, but I will say I see zero evidence of the perversity
claimed, and must say it is only fostered in the minds of those who wish for
a world awash in filth. The next premise is that Nick is Apollo and Littless
is Artemis who was created from, you guessed it, an androgynous figure.
“Wuthering Heights” is a fine choice for a young girl but of course she
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needs her brother to read it to her, yes we see the connection with Catherine
and Heathcliff, but it is hardly tormented love there in the forest. The
parallel is not there in a sexual sense as in the book by Emily Bronte.
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