They hit it off after he tells Hazel that she looks like Natalie Portman-yeah. Cancer is apparently deadly, so Hazel Grace is afraid she’s gonna die-this represents Green’s obsession with the extinction of womankind.Īt the hospital or whatever, Hazel meets a legless boy called Augustus Waters (an extremely pretentious name) who used to be a basketball player even though he’s white. (Hair is a sign of beauty and womanhood according to the patriarchy.) Without delving too deep, it’s obvious that Green seems to have a power fantasy where he makes women, who we all know are strong and independent, seem like weak people who’re out of breath. Surprised? No, cuz of course Green has chosen to portray the female lead as weak and sickly without hair.
Sexist much? Oh, and Grace? Like in Christianity? So you’re saying she’s supposed to be a good little church girl for your sexual gratification? Huh? Dirty old man.Īnyway, so this girl has cancer, can’t breathe properly, and has no hair. So yeah, Green is basically saying that his lead female character is as charismatic as a piece of wood. WTF? What kind of a name is that, I thought at first, but then I went on the Internet and began exploring the deep and dark crevices of John Green’s mind, and it became obvious that “Hazel” is alluding to the tree called Hazel. In spite of all this I had to pick up the book I am a very cultural young woman after all.įirst off, the book is about a girl called Hazel Grace. They’re full of phallocentric “facts” and “logic” but always neglect to express what women of color’s feelings are on certain scientific topics. John Green, for those of you who don’t know, is this total dweeb from YouTube who makes videos about science from a very patriarchal point of view. At first, when I saw my slightly younger sistahs posting Instapics of the cover I thought it was a strong book for strong young girls about the prestigious science of astrology, but then, I learnt to my total horror that the author was John Green. Teenage girls seem to totally love it, almost worship it. Book?Ī book that’s been like really popular the last few years is The Fault in our Stars. Words hurt and do we really want a society where the oppressed groups are VISUALLY ASSAULTED every time they open a. We need to make a giant leap, like Lance Armstrong, and make sure all books that contain words and content that can offend women, gays, and minorities must be totally incinerated. This was totally great, as it took some of my guilt about what we did to them away, but it was only a baby step. In our particular society, this intellectual elite is, of course, made up out of strong independent feminists and social-justice activists.Ī couple of years back they edited out the “N” word in Tom Sawyer’s Nickelberry Finn.
But you yourself can’t go ahead and decide which books to burn-no-a jury of the most intellectual and, like, logical people in any given society must decide which of all the gazillion books in the world must be burned. Many books contain bad things that can offend people and these books should be burned. Perhaps the easiest thing to burn is books, cuz they’re made of paper and paper is made of rain forests. It’s called “burning it.” I don’t see why it isn’t done more, I mean there’s so many sexist, racist, and homophobic things that should be eaten by Flames of Tolerance to ensure nobody’s offended by them. There’s a good way to get rid of stuff you don’t like and don’t want others to see. That fucking Augustus Waters and that John Green…God, I’m mad…if you like that book you’ve got to be a fucking idiot-anyway, I’ll get to that.
Like, I can’t even breathe as I’m writing this.