Accidentally Progressive Misogynists
Nov 7 · 6 min read
It’s no secret that I’m a feminist, but I also grew up reading and adoring the words of Dead White Men, as they’re often referred to now. Today, however, I want to focus my gaze on two peculiar bedfellows: Hemingway and H.P. Lovecraft.
When I first read Hemingway — for school, surprisingly enough; most other authors of “Great Literature,” I sought out on my own — I was struck by the female protagonist’s ferocious personality. In Matilda, Roald Dahl’s main character comments to the kindly librarian that she “doesn’t understand some of the things he says sometimes…

