i don’t believe she breasted boobily down the stairs for the first time. As if chests not usually breast boobily all the time. pff
Sometimes it takes the prose of a literary masterpiece to see ourselves more clearly as the world sees us
To quote the scriptures, “Pics or it didn’t happen”
I have no idea what’s going on here. Is there some intricacy about the English language I’m not getting?
There’s an old meme of male writers writing women like ‘she breasted boobily down the stairs’ as in shoehorning it in. Even one of my favorites, Gene Wolfe, did this in Shadow & Claw, although it might have more to do with the character of the protagonist in those books
I forget who did it but someone wrote that phrase in their book. Theres a LOT of books that try to be “fancy” with their writing and use old or non standard English to do so.
Tumblr user scottbaiowulf wrote this phrase as a parody of over-sexualization of female characters in literature.
“Cassandra woke up to the rays of the sun streaming through the slats on her blinds, cascading over her naked chest. She stretched, her breasts lifting with her arms as she greeted the sun. She rolled out of bed and put on a shirt, her nipples prominently showing through the thin fabric. She breasted boobily to the stairs, and titted downwards.”
Life imitating art imitating life
for years I’ve been holding my breath, daring not to say it out loud. at last someone has spoken truth to power
How was it the first time You went down stairs?
