Status Updates From Baby, You're a Rich Man

he's now insinuating that kumi (post rape) had never been 'clean' i.e. innocent.

like the insecurity just radiates off of this. imagine walking around like this. thinking women are like this. women as nothing but pretty things to discard like dixie cups. women as always out to get you. evil cunning bitches but also somehow dumb as animals or children. like can you imagine waking to that world daily? what a dark, sad place.

and the ex wife has been tricked into being a drug mule...get it guys, because kent used to be addicted to drugs? that's what she gets for leaving her *squints at hand* husband who cheated on her and didn't stop his colleague from raping her and killed his older brother

cat ears...

a "bad lady mosquito" is the reason he almost died lmao even him shitting himself is women's fault. you literally could have picked any parasite. what's really bonkers is that it doesn't even create some kind of parallel like literally nothing bad that has happened to him is the fault of anyone but himself

"He'd kept up with his old show, hoping it would fail without him. But it maintained its top-two ranking in the 8 to 9p.m. slot." lol

"What do you, a pathological liar, know about the truth? Actions have consequences, you giant egomaniacal asshole." When the villain is literally correct.

LMAO THE CHARACTER LITERALLY SAYS SHE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS BROOOOO

Why is Ozman torturing Midori to get to Kent? He has nothing against her, unlike his wife who cheated on him. It's almost like this author just wants excuses to show women being brutalized. Almost as if it's...nah, it can't be...

"How helpless and pathetic Kumi had looked [while she'd gotten raped]" the electric chair is the only solution

"I should have killed you when I had the chance." Bro you are not James Bond lmao you're a b list actor and you couldn't even get in an umbrella fight without almost losing an eye. You're gonna kill someone? How? You've spent this entire book wee-wooing about how you murdered your older brother. Why tf is it so easy for you to kill again? If he's a psycho that's fine and makes sense but I can't root for him.

"her lingering wail was like that of a child" i'm SCREAMING holy shit

"he couldn't recall one concrete moment with his wife" because she was never a concrete character to begin with lmao, just an artifact that existed to go missing and further Kent's tragic backstory. nice try though.

"He'd loved her." The reason the author has to keep repeating this is because the character's actions are so inconsistent with it that we wouldn't know it otherwise. Men who love their wives don't cheat on them. If Kent had loved Kumi he wouldn't have cheated on her. He's just a shallow, chauvinist egomaniac incapable of love though so of course he did.

"once again he was the victim" that's it that's the whole book

Lmao and now we get to watch the main character shit himself.

"Kumi's eyes remained closed, her face indifferent, resigned." PORN SICK. JFL at thinking any woman on planet earth would 'resign' herself to rape. This is apeshit.

Genuinely from the bottom of my heart fuck this guy lmao. Like do you ever read something and get so angry you wanna gut a dead animal? Fuck.

It's really so morbidly fascinating seeing how men who see women as another species view rape. They literally don't understand we have our own lives, our own senses of shame. They don't know we have the same drive for redemption and vengeance as men do. Men whose view of us is formed by pornography literally view us as objects, like we cry a little and spread our legs and it's over forever. That's not how it works.

What I find fascinating is how only women seem to get punished for Kent's transgression. Monique gets shot in the face. Kumi gets assaulted. Kent gets...chased? This was written by a massive misogynist. Dude has some serious, serious unpacking to do. Like men CAN write assault scenes, ASOIAF rape scenes never bothered me like this did, but they can only write them well if they actually see women as human.

"couldn't see her there on the floor tied up like a pig to be roasted" oh my fucking god this author hates women SO MUCH

"she shook her head like a dog"

"She was young, but also grown up." MAMMA MIA NOOOO

main whor--i mean character: *cheats on his wife*
wife: is pretty and liked by people
text: their transgressions are the same