Exiled Online is one of my favorite sites, like, ever. The writers are oftentimes assholes and have a somewhat sexist slant to some of their articles, much like the one I just read regarding Sylvia Plath's husband (oh yeah!), Ted Hughes (link). Although, I found this to be pure poetry:
"Promiscuity was the norm, for men and women. I remember when I saw Hughes read his own verse, at the Center for Fine Arts in San Francisco. This was when Crow had come out and Hughes was as close to a rock star as any poet was going to get, so there was a big crowd, excited, way better looking than the typical poetry crowd. Hughes came to the stage, bigger and more impressive than I’d expected-he had that ex-RAF look that I thought only existed in movies-and before he could get started, this hippie guy stood up and screamed toward somebody several rows back, 'You are still my wife, Karen! You are STILL MY WIFE!' His target audience, shall we say, was this tall dark-haired gypsy-looking woman who flipped him off and laughed at him while he ranted. Tough crowd, is what I’m saying here, and not always the guys who won. Martyred virgins…you didn’t see too many of those. If Sylvia took that road, it was because she wanted to. I ‘spec’ poor ol’ Ted had very little idea what was going on; that’s what usually happens when you play straight man to a suicidal drama queen."
Lovely. However, some of us egoistic American women are angry for pretty good reasons. I NEVER LIKED PLATH SO MUCH OKAY?????
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