RIP Philip Roth

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[heyabbott]

I was looking forward to this book after reading the New Yorker piece on it.

I’d still like to read it without putting money in that man’s pocket. I hope there’s a bootleg online version available at some point.

That man is innocent until proven guilty. Denies any and all illegal activities without qualification. No one claims he had sex with students or with minors.
Stop reading Roth because he was sexually depraved? Stop reading Hemingway because his son affectively alleges child abuse?

 

[User 149557]

That man is innocent until proven guilty. Denies any and all illegal activities without qualification. No one claims he had sex with students or with minors.
Stop reading Roth because he was sexually depraved? Stop reading Hemingway because his son affectively alleges child abuse?

Thanks for explaining the concept of our justice system. I had no idea. But it really has no effect on where I choose to spend my money, Tipsy McStagger.

 

[User 149557]

Still have your Kobe poster on your bedroom wall? Moral consistency

What kind of loser put posters on his wall?

You, I’m guessing.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

This dude played a serious long game to manipulate his students into sex.

Blake Bailey’s Students Worshipped Him. They Trusted Him. When They Grew Up, He Preyed On Them.

 

[swingline]

This dude played a serious long game to manipulate his students into sex.

Blake Bailey’s Students Worshipped Him. They Trusted Him. When They Grew Up, He Preyed On Them.

Girls that age are so insecure and vulnerable, and Bailey exploited that at every turn. Encouraging kids to put on paper their darkest fears and desires — which he read and commented on — very clearly is outside the bounds of what a teacher should be doing. Rapist POS.

 

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Creep.