tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550868480663112358.post4934904811961440567..comments2024-02-25T10:27:34.057-05:00Comments on Media Funhouse: Norman Mailer on his characters and their penisesMedia Funhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15243301374887605164noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550868480663112358.post-21379408938711420252007-12-07T10:50:00.000-05:002007-12-07T10:50:00.000-05:00This is a really funny clip, and I think Mailer's ...This is a really funny clip, and I think Mailer's arguments here are sharper and fairer than in The Prisoner of Sex. Like a few of his late 60s/early 70s books, it's great as magazine reading but seems not quite substantial enough in book form - and his nonfiction is often romantic in a way his novels never were. His subsequent negativity toward feminism was almost certainly provoked by feminists' stereotyping of him as a primitive and mysoginist - though in the last 5-10 years he said he didn't blame them - "I made some stupid remarks about women, I said they were so dangerous they should be locked in cages..."<BR/><BR/>You can read my short piece about Mailer at <A HREF="http://www.quickfiction.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow"> Espresso Shots </A>ANTHONY SIDEShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05787405026283860499noreply@blogger.com