I try to tell myself, it was a different time, he meant well, but while Lord of the Flies was written in the 1950’s, this recording wasn’t made until 1976, well into feminism hitting the mainstream. It may not be as overt as it’s often played out with boys, but it’s always there, seething beneath the surface, which unfortunately, we often end up using on each other. The women I know simply want to be seen as more than a daughter, a sister, a mother, a virgin or a whore. This is the message he chose to leave listeners with right before presenting his novel.Īnd even if I were to give him the benefit of the doubt, that he truly believes women are superior to men, living goddesses on earth, which I’ve come to see as a glaring red flag, a flimsy mask for rampant sexism, women don’t want to be put on a pedestal or used as a vessel to project their needs upon. But this is a man who understands the power of words. I try to chalk it up to nervous chatter, the way one can get flustered in an interview.
I know what some of you are probably thinking, because I thought the same thing after all, I’m a mid-western woman prone to excessive niceness and self-doubt. Which speaks volumes from an author who, when given the chance, decided that only boys can represent society. Not how men can live together in society, but people.
This implies that a girl or a woman’s sole purpose is for sex or marriage.īut what really sticks with me the most is how he states that this book is about the problem of how people are to live together in society. I mean, Kill Bill-red siren-level pissed. I mean, sex is too trivial a thing to get in with a story like this, which was about the problem of evil, and the problem of how people are to live together in society, not just as lovers or man and wife.” “The other thing is, why aren’t they little boys and little girls? Well, if they’d been little boys and little girls, we being who we are (there’s a not so subtle wink wink in his voice), sex would’ve raised its lovely head, and I didn’t want this book to be about sex (keep in mind, the characters in his book range from 6 to 12 years old). To which I scream, “Have you ever been to Junior High?”Īnd just when I think it can’t get any worse, he says…
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