antiz’s Reviews > Catch-22 > Status Update

Why in all male-centred books must women be sex objects? And why is their anger always referred to first with the adjective “feminine [outrage/rage/anger/frustration”. Male = default, female = requires extra descriptors. And is always related to sex.

It’s very well-written and humorous, but it’s kind of just going in circles. I get that they’re all crazy, but what’s next?

This book is very funny, although I am waiting to see what the real plot is rather than just anecdotes outlining how all the men are contradictory and crazy.

[life seems ‘longer if it’s filled with periods of boredom and discomfort’]
‘Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it’s to seem so long. But it than event, who wants one?’
‘I do’ Dunbar told him.
‘Why?’ Clevinger asked.
‘What else is there?’

Catch-22.
You can get out of duty if you’re crazy, but you have to ask to leave.
You’re crazy for doing what they ask of you, because putting your life at risk to inflict violence is crazy.
But as soon as you realise/admit it (by asking to leave), you’re not crazy anymore.
So you’re trapped, unable to be released from duty.

“Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives. There was no end in sight.”

…
days later, all charges paid, bloated, blue and putrescent, water draining out through both cold nostrils.”

Ironic describing that people want to kill you but you, too, kill them (aka war is stupid).
Even nature becomes poisonous, destructive and violent. Ironic also that it mentions money (all charges paid), perhaps bringing light to how stupid money in modern day society can be, putting a price on life/death

“Clevinger really thought he was right, but Yossarian had proof, because strangers he didn’t know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them, and it wasn’t funny at all. And if that wasn’t funny, there were lots of things that weren’t even funnier.” Then describes even nature being violent, “[gulping] down a person” and “[shipping] him back to shore three CONT