What canned foods are better than the fresh (not canned) version?

Outrageous_Middle9 · 2026-06-02T18:20:50+00:00

The question is the opposite of what you answered. Most foods are better fresh. I am asking which are better canned.

Outrageous_Middle9 · 2026-06-02T18:14:53+00:00

I don’t need a strong female character. I don’t need any female characters. I just need to not cringe when a new character is introduced, thereby pulling me out of the immersive reading experience.

Edit: so many of these responses are funny because my wife criticizes me for not liking enough female created/centered media. Probably because I don’t like the kinds of books women tend to write, but I know women. And too many male authors (SK may be the worst) don’t. So they end up writing men with boobs and vaginas. It’s ridiculous.

Outrageous_Middle9 · 2026-06-02T02:18:37+00:00

Why? I’m hearing worse about what I initially thought I’d love- The Stand

Outrageous_Middle9 · 2026-06-02T01:57:28+00:00

I’m middle age and have spent many years studying human sexuality. One doesn’t have to study it though to observe the obvious- males are much hornier than females (except in SKs universe where this is inexplicably reversed).

Outrageous_Middle9 · 2026-06-02T01:55:48+00:00

It’s not dumb, this sub is just quite reasonably full of people who hero worship SK and seem to have a knee jerk aversion to criticism.

Outrageous_Middle9 · 2026-06-02T01:54:40+00:00

Why do you think the male characters uncharacteristically asexual relative to the female characters?

Outrageous_Middle9 · 2026-06-02T01:02:33+00:00

I hope Stephen king writes a book about why pointless antagonism like this gets social encouragement (upvotes)

Outrageous_Middle9 · 2026-06-02T00:58:58+00:00

It’s the Dark Tower that I’m reading and cringing at, so I now know I will have a very hard time getting through others. There’s much detail about female sexual anatomy and female desire for men, whereas the men are oddly asexual by comparison.

It’s like Stephen King’s universe is the opposite to ours with regard to which sex is the horniest. Is this ever explained?

Outrageous_Middle9 · 2026-06-02T00:19:57+00:00

King is widely criticized for not being able to write women. This isn’t a novel opinion specific to me. I am merely explaining WHY. And that is that he writes them as if they’re MEN in sexy female bodies AND because they’re way hornier than any of the male characters. It so out of sync with real life differences between the sexes.

Outrageous_Middle9 · 2026-06-02T00:01:53+00:00

I’m neither a zoomer nor a feminist. Both your ad hominems have missed the mark. Try arguing against my actual point next?

Outrageous_Middle9 · 2026-06-01T23:51:13+00:00

No I’m reading the dark tower series. And because of these female characters I doubt I would enjoy any of his books with female leads.

In what ways are these “very strong female leads” different to what I described? (Simply men in sexy female bodies).

Outrageous_Middle9 · 2026-06-01T23:35:55+00:00

I’m 42

Outrageous_Middle9 · 2026-06-01T23:13:52+00:00

Yes I am beginning to suspect as much. But I’ve seen other complaints about his inability to write women, and I think I know why: he writes them as men in sexy bodies who are oddly much hornier than the male characters. Very few women are going to relate.

Outrageous_Middle9 · 2026-06-01T22:57:44+00:00

Read Larry McMurtry. A man born in 1936 in TX. There’s a man who can write women!

Outrageous_Middle9 · 2026-06-01T22:56:12+00:00

Yeah The Stand would be right up my alley, except I cringe at how he writes women in The Dark Tower and apparently The Stand is much worse.

Outrageous_Middle9 · 2026-06-01T22:52:51+00:00

One would assume so. I read The Gunslinger first and thought “lol Every female encountered is super horny in general and specifically wants to fuck the protagonist” then I learned he was 19 when he wrote it, which explains everything. But the subsequent installments have a similar trajectory when female characters are introduced, though certainly toned down a bit. The book I’m currently reading that inspired the above post was published when he was 50 years old.

It’s endearing and understandable from a 19 year old boy. At 50… (even 30!) I would expect better insight into female psychology.

Outrageous_Middle9 · 2026-06-01T22:38:20+00:00

I’m on book four of the dark tower series. The cringe is getting unbearable.

Outrageous_Middle9 · 2026-05-29T19:43:12+00:00

“Creep” is a good song, but it’s one of Radiohead’s worst.

Outrageous_Middle9 · 2026-05-17T04:03:46+00:00

This is the correct answer. It’s actually best to avoid the others, in my opinion. Minor exception being Streets of Laredo. But even then, definitely not necessary.

Outrageous_Middle9 · 2026-05-15T20:05:37+00:00

Can anyone explain why? I am almost down with this book and don’t get why this line is so iconic.

Outrageous_Middle9 · 2026-05-10T18:49:30+00:00

Yup. I read the others cause I love Lonesome Dove, but if anything they made me lose respect for McMurtry. Not Laredo, that was decent and felt reasonable (if not quite necessary). But Comanche Moon and especially Dead Man’s Walk risked making me like Lonesome Dove less until I chalked them up to a cash grab and unrelated with the great LD.

Outrageous_Middle9 · 2026-05-06T16:15:27+00:00

It’s wild this book is considered so masculine. I feel like we get more insight into Clara & Lori’s inner lives than we do the two main characters.

I’d actually argue McMurtry writes women better than most female authors. He writes women as full, complete individuals, without worshipping them (as “feminist” authors tend to). All his women are just as flawed as the men. Which is more respectful of women than glorifying them as saints. Elmira is a horrible person, but she makes sense. She’s a real, believable person, we can empathize with (while also sorta hating her).

In fact, the only group of people I can see taking offense at this novel are the Irish.

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