![]() ![]() Women live in fear of being preyed upon by these exact types of men everyday and yet when we read about it in a fictional setting it’s argued that it’s not realistic? I disagree. I think it would be easy for readers to write Animal off as an unrealistic representation of men-and there are elements of it that lend me to agree with this assumption-but I would argue that isn’t a fair assessment. While the consistency of disgusting behaviour felt a bit exaggerated when reading in a condensed book of roughly 300 pages, if we were to think through the span of our lives I think our creepy old dude meter would be ticking right up with Joan’s. While to me it felt like that is the only perspective we got, I simply can’t argue with the fact that these people exist and it wouldn’t be a stretch to say most of us are fairly familiar with them in our own lives. The men depicted in this book mostly all fall under the umbrella of “creepy old dude,” with a few exceptions. ![]() ![]() It is hard to tell whether Taddeo was writing the men this way as an accurate or ironic depiction of stereotypical attributes we are all very familiar with. All of the men in Animal are simply: the worst. ![]()
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