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==Criticism== | ==Criticism== | ||
Due to the frankness of Houllebecq, [[incelphobe]]s assert that reading to much into Houllebecq is a fools game, and assert (without any evidence and without challenging the ideas) that because the arguments are contained in fiction, that they cannot be taken seriously. | Due to the frankness of Houllebecq, [[incelphobe]]s assert that reading to much into Houllebecq is a fools game, and assert (without any evidence and without challenging the ideas) that because the arguments are contained in fiction, that they cannot be taken seriously. For example, here on Twitter we see a sex author named Jarryd Bartle say that Houllebecq was simply "mocking incels",<ref>https://twitter.com/JarrydBartle/status/1209035839453315073</ref>, and not taking them seriously. Adam Kirsch, writing in the New York Times, would beg to differ, stating:<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/books/review/michael-houellebecqs-sexual-distopia.html</ref> | ||
{{Quote|"Lacking in looks as well as personal charm [..] I don’t in the least correspond to what women are usually looking for in a man,” the narrator confesses. Houellebecq has always seen himself as speaking for and to such men"|Adam Kirsch in the New York Times}} | |||
It seems Adam is more correct, and Houllebecq was not writing simply to mock, but to illustrate what life is like for an incel. Whatever was not written for in the spirit of being a [[chad]], but was rather a self-autobiographical work about his life after a crumbling marriage. This was the period of his life between 1988-1991 when he was a nobody, had no pubic accomplishment under his belt, became a programmer, fell into a depression, visited psychiatric hospitals, experienced periods of unemployement, had no partner etc<ref>https://quillette.com/2019/04/10/michel-houellebecq-prophet-or-troll/</ref>, major themes in the book Whatever. Houllebecq only became anywhere close to a [[chad]] after this point in his life, when his writing career started building in the 1990s, eventually culminating in his first published hit in 1998, the same year he found a partner again.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/nov/05/fiction.michelhouellebecq</ref> | |||
== References == | == References == | ||