Who let me on the opinion train?

This post called "Four Lies from the Mouth of God" "A beautifully written, truly awful story about the price women (and children) can pay for the political actions of men. Powerful reading, but I plan never to read it again."

My feelings are two.

1) Thank God someone appreciates the awfulness! I feared some things had lost their power to disgust.

2) Women paying for the actions of men? I thought this story was, if anything, about a man paying for the actions of a woman, children paying for the actions of that man, children paying for the actions of that woman, and finally the woman paying for her own actions. God save me from making a statement on gender--I am most horrendously unqualified.

Friday, January 29, 2010

preaching to the invisible choir, reading, reviews, short fiction