Reading

Alright well I wasn't going to be analytical and show proof of my conclusion, but now I feel an urge to explain my thoughts to others so I will. Hmmph. Dang Sundays what ahve they done by god w h a t have they done?
A-hem.

So I continued to read Pearl S. Buck. I did not get very far. I became annoyed when the protagonist told her friend she was going to ask her husband to take a concubine. (I was all, what what what?!) So that's alright I suppose, except it bothered me so much I coulnd't make myself keep reading to find out what would happen to Madame Wu. Also, the narrator often mentions how Madame Wu's friend, Madame Kang, is overweight, and portrays it as a bad, disgusting thing. "Madame Kang lumbered across the court toward her friend. She had grown fat in the same years during which Madame Wu had remained exquisite, but she was generous not to love her friend in spite of this"(Buck, Pavilion of Women, 7). Either it is universally excepted that an overweight person does not deserve love, or only Madame Wu feels she is superfluous in her kindness by loving a person who is overweight. Both options are repulsive. Another possiblity has occurred to me, which is the author means to comment on Chinese culture in general as expressing disgust towards overweight people.
Argal, this book is awful and I won't read it anymore.
Also, the narrator refers to Madame Wu and her friend as "the two Chinese Ladies"(11) which I can scarcely think of a justification for except the author being a racist white lady. I am being harsh but who cares? I care, because this is a forum online and probably the government cantrack what I am saying and has a file somewhere saying, look, here is written porof of Ras being biased! well, I will not post this complete post. I will censor it for my safety and email this complete post to myself will I? Yes. No. I will just post the whole thing let's ramble, ramble, ramble, ramble, ramble. Ah so the only possbility I can see that Buck would have in her favor for referring to the main character as a chinese lady would be to emphasize the cultural differences between Madame Wu, Madame Kang, and the newly introduced European character, Little Sister Hsia, who cannot speak chinese well and still feels a little unconfortable in the presence of Madame wu and her friend. Perhaps that is why they are referred to as chinse ladies? No, I stil don't think that's right. It's racist right? I Ras the Destroyer shall be bold [yay! I get a cookie.]
and say yes that is racist.