HARUKI MURAKAMI IS A MISOGYNIST

Haruki Murakami's portrayal of women in his novels is very problematic! There are articles in LitHub, The LA Times, The Guardian, The Toronto Star, and a ton of other major organizations on Murakami's problematic writing of women. There are also 800+ Reddit threads on this topic. Today I'll be exploring these articles, and getting to the bottom of Haruki Murakami's misogyny.
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[@rp8028]

On the contrary, he is good at portraying men as helpless creatures. Case in point the short stories of "Men without women". An actor who has a sixth sense that his wife who is also an actress has had four affairs with men but does not confront her when she is alive, a man who catches his wife in the act but shuts the door to walk away, a man who dreams of all the sailors sleeping with the woman he loves and is helpless against it. Need more examples ? Would not call it misandry but wonder if men should read that book.

[@WriteConscious]

More examples please! We should read the book! Being creative means going to weird and taboo lands. One look at adult film plot lines would show you that it isn't some fringe topic either.

[@rp8028]

@@WriteConscious Here you go. A 20 year old student who wants his sweetheart since school days to sleep with his friend because he himself finds it difficult to get in to her panties and lose his virginity, a guy who is turned in to a jawless sucker aka lamprey fish by a women that he satisfied in bed. In short, that book is the biggest collection of pusillanimous men in one place that you can find.

[@kevinreily2529]

Any MALE WRITER who tells the truth about women, in any way, is called "Misogynist". They've cried wolf "so many times even the wolves are laughing". Not to mention the media constantly urging women to sleep around, and they end often end up alone.

[@genesisbustamante-durian]

He isn't misogynist, he is simply a Japanese man.

[@IchibanOjousama]

😂

[@WriteConscious]

lol

[@rainyjazz9849]

He is much more supportive for women rights then most Japanese men

[@rainyjazz9849]

He is much more supportive for women rights then most Japanese men

[@michaeldeguzman3852]

haroooki myurakami

[@WriteConscious]

Earn-est Hem-ing-way

[@andergrindstudios7546]

Fiction, to paraphrase DeSantis, is where Woke goes to die.. ; )

[@melaniegrace7707]

Thank you I was coming here ready to defend him 😅

[@Hikesoup]

The amount of output on this subject feels like cope. If his books were made into movies (maybe they have I just haven’t seen) would they pass the Bechdel test? Lol

[@rainyjazz9849]

He is not. Japanese culture is, actually!

[@NeonPixels81]

What I don't like about Murakami is that people always try to say "well the _character_ is misogynistic", which is completely valid when it comes to some authours. For example, Alex in a Clockwork Orange is completely misogynistic and sociopathic, but its clear throughout the text that the CHARACTER is the one having these feelings, and there's a larger narrative around them. In Murakami "novels", it just feels like fantasy wish fulfillment, largely because every one of his main characters is exactly the same. It's boring and reading his stuff literally feels like a waste of time. I like to think that even if I finish a bad book, I learned something from the experience. I learned nothing from the three Murakami books I read. Nothing. I don't care about his personal feelings, his long elaborations on his work. I'm not going to do that extra legwork to "understand" the art. If the work isn't interesting on its own, I'm moving on, and Murakami is completely uninteresting.

[@WriteConscious]

That is one of the reasons I moved away from Murakami. I've read all his works, but I haven't grown very much from all that work. However, I do like his writing style and minimalist implementation of magic in his novels.

[@amiram4608]

I think there's alot to get from the way he writes about the quiet ambience of every day life. And sometimes it may read as nonsense but underneath it I do think there's important meditations on life. I feel like a common theme is accepting anything that happens to you and the emptiness of it.

[@amiram4608]

I'm a big Murakami fan but the sexual assault scene in kafka on the shore literally uses the word rape in the passage, and says something like - "he could see the pleasure rising on her face" at the end of the day an author is responsible for their messaging, especially downplaying sexual assault. Out of all his books this one section is written so recklessly that it's genuinely shocking. I don't think he's a misogynist but I'm not surprised others think so.

[@samayresss]

How come all these videos about Murakami being misogynist all have black nail varnish. This isn't an opinion, it is merely an observation.

[@ptsk9921]

I’m women but I like his book though

[@TheSethcast]

your voice sounds so different now

[@RainerRilke3]

Great video! But for the love of God please never pronounce Murakami like that ever again

[@quandalebingletonda3rd957]

Bruh I’m sick again damn

[@WriteConscious]

Gotta stop reading so much and go outside and exercise lol!

[@quandalebingletonda3rd957]

@@WriteConscious nah I got it from someone at school probably

[@quandalebingletonda3rd957]

You should do a Margaret Atwood book tier list

[@WriteConscious]

On it!

[@MichaelHickman3D]

Hello!!! I now have symptoms of a fever due to this fall, congestion plagues me.

[@WriteConscious]

Lol. Michael, it's still 90 degrees every day 🤣 I don't think it was fall 💁🏻‍♂️

[@BrandonsBookshelf]

lol! before I saw it was Satire, I was like nooo I just found your channel and was so excited lol! WEll done!

[@WriteConscious]

Lol! The bait and switch worked!

[@yxvoegl2263]

Great video. Everyone who thinks Murakami is a misogynist should read some female misogynist authors like Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa or The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jellinek.

[@WriteConscious]

Yes!

[@IchibanOjousama]

Murakami is awful 🤢

[@yxvoegl2263]

Then why did you watch this video?

[@NeonPixels81]

@@yxvoegl2263 I'm sure it had nothing to do with the clickbait title.

[@WriteConscious]

@neonpixels81 This wasn't a clickbait title? All I did was discuss if he was a misogynist or not and look at the claims??

[@DaveoMC]

It's always misogynist and toxic masculinity until they need you to go to war for them. People need to be less co -depend on others and their opinions. I am blessed to of grown up for the most part in a world that had imagination and creativity, not like the last 5 or 6 years in a world full of wannabes, with false idealism, who have no grasp of true intelligence.

[@WriteConscious]

Exactly, kids are being raised in a very inauthentic world today.

[@IchibanOjousama]

Murakami is literally a mysogynist and writes objectively bad anatomy

[@gin-lf9ye]

and why do you guys need to go to war in the first place?