wannabe holden caulfield.
--str
05/14 |
i enjoyed it, thank you.
--grce
04/26 |
Neil La Bute is a fucking god! :)
--CFQ
04/12 |
What did the photo above this story have to do with it? It's a great photo, but it shows a man eager on top of an attractive woman while the story is about an unattractive woman talking and then giving head to an indifferent man...
--K.D.
04/10 |
This is the first time I've come to read any of the offerings on this site, and although I'm not a premium member and therefore cannot access the full range of pieces, I must say I've just been forced to swallow the pain of quite a few guys who really hate themselves too much to being having sex with anyone. This is one of the worst ways that we spread hate.
--\/\/
04/07 |
This is so terribly sad.
Sad that I never even once thought guys thought like this.
I have some serious thinking to do.
--CSL
04/03 |
Methinks thou doth protests too much. Look, we all have choices. Are you grown? At least 18? I am not certain you were not waiting for your mama to come save you. As desperate as your date was to suck your dick, you were just as desperate to get it. So the better question is... Was it good? Keep it Real... the Truth Fairy
--sb
04/01 |
Brilliant! Poking fun at endless, self-absorbed inanity by writing an endless, self-absorbed, inane article!
We get it, Neil!
--fuq
04/01 |
I'm a big fan of LaBute's films but I do admit that returning to the same theme over and over in such a similar and predictable fashion has really worn me out on his work. Having said that, I am not convinced that theme is misogyny. I think he probes the contradictory urges of aggresion and sensuality and how that shapes male culture. On its own, I agree with many of you that "Grand Slam" doesn't really hold up, but when placed alongside his other works it does offer more than simple misogyny.
--RmR
04/01 |
punishing and painful--i liked this story for its simplicity, point of view and nicely articulated voice. misogynist? hell, i don't know. it's good, that's what matters.
--rbw
03/31 |
Horrid. Is this supposed to be some "turnabout is fair play"? Or just raw, cold baiting -- looking for a feminist rant?. Is the point of view valid? That he never cums being his comeuppance?
--mc
03/30 |
"How did I get here?" and "What does it mean?" Gee, we've been waiting three millenia for someone -- ANYONE -- to express these poignant, universal, not-at-all-beaten-to-death questions! THANK YOU, Neil LaBute, for pointing your redundant, derivative, misogynistic muse in this direction. It's Holden and the hooker all over again, except that this sucks.
--EM
03/29 |
Neil Labute revels in this stuff. His movies and his writings only muse on the scary side of the human experience. It's his only muse. Don't be surprised by his hateful crap because it is the same old card he has been playing for years.
--clj
03/29 |
God, Neil Labute really is the less skillful version of Brett Easton Ellis, isn't he? He's far too stuffy and impotent to be lacerating and too puerile to be witty. This is satire as done by a menstruating fifteen year old brat. Not so much an angry young man as a bitchy little hack.
--RF
03/29 |
That's the problem with Shame - you can write about it but no one wants to admit that they've been in that situation. No one's gonna admit that they can relate.
--FD
03/29 |
Does this dude have no balls!? I mean None??? What the hell is WRONG with YOU buddy, get the hell up, tell her off if need be, walk out, and call it a night. Damn you're a pathetic drama king. Get a GRIP dude!
--EM
03/29 |
A lot of the stories (and maybe essays) Nerve has been publishing lately have had weird, vaguely and not so vaguely misogynistic undertones. For one piece there's nothing wrong with that -- the fiction is written well enough -- but to me it seems like its adding up to something creepy. These male narrators who want to do violence to women they're sexually involved with, these broadly drawn women who never get to be complex characters -- its not edgy or daring if you keep doing it. Maybe nerve's getting kinkier, and hey, there's nothing wrong with that, but there's a lot of different ways that can get expressed, not just this. I mean, the story was fine, but I felt like I'd read versions of it before.
--
03/29 |
Reading this story was what I would imagine having a conversation with that girl "from the apartment downstairs" is like. Just another case of too-hip-to-be-coherent (or even digestable).
--jcd
03/29 |
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