"One Gear, One Year", T-shirt Design Competition.

roxy [quote]chris crash i don't think its misogynistic, just because it portrays rape, those passages are graphic and when you read it it makes you feel a bit ill. the message i got from the book is not go out and rape and rob people, it was this is what happens when in out society, this is what violent youth do for fun, and its taken a bit to an extreme. it also shows that none of the government, or opposition have any way of solving it.

I don't think showing rape is misogynistic. I think the lack of a credible female character and that the majority of female characters are either rape victims, victims, or sculptures that are only good for providing milk to creepy men is.

Anyway, what does it have to do with fixed gear?[/quote]

every character in that book is a victim.

the lack of credible female characters exists in that book for the same reason there is a lack of credible gay/old/poor/rich/middle class/any thing else. Alex wants to feel good. drugs, fighting, and fucking make him fell good, so he takes what he wants with out caring what happens, then other people want some thing from Alex, and they take that from him. in the end he is back taking what he wants and that makes him happy. yes all of what Alex wants would be considered bad things, but the book never makes you think he is right in wanting them, or taking them.

and the poster was redesgined to make it have something to do with fixed gear and the interweb.