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But what of the way the book treats men, and affects our notion of them? Insofar as Ellis has deliberately created a monstrous deformity, it is nonetheless striking that the monster is male, and preys mostly on women; and insofar as he intends a closer identification with his creation, the...
Ellis' plot line is, of course, true to criminal statistics, and to our intuitive sense that terrible physical violence is all too often perpetrated by men on women. But it is very much to be hoped that the outrage would be no less if Ellis' monster had been a woman...
Consider, for example, another just published novel, by another highly touted young writer, which, if it gets less exposure than Ellis', will probably win more praise: Two Girls, Fat and Thin, by Mary Gaitskill. And consider for a moment how the novel looks at men. The first of the eponymous...
Again, this is not to exonerate Ellis; it is only to say that the interaction of the sexes, like everything else, can only be demeaned if it is caricatured as a contest of black against white. And in our justifiable sensitivity to certain kinds of violence, we may blind ourselves...
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