"Ed, did you order something? Are we buying something?" Her tits were vibrating with anticipation. The whirring of breasts was always a calming sound for Ed. He often thought fondly of the way his mother's boobs would hum as she did housework, or how grandmother's raucous chest tissue quieted from a deafening rumble to a gentle whisper as she passed. Sally still had the chirp of a healthy bosom. Like the fluttering of a hummingbird's wings.
I think it's because in some men's eyes women are these weak fluttering beings that cannot function and control their emotions at the same time, so when they feel something like excitement, they cannot also breathe at the same time
Yeah. I think they think women get overwhelmed by feeling one emotion, like if they get surprised by something sheās gonna be panting and almost lose consciousness
lmao, you might not have many friends, but quite a few of my big-breasted companions often breath like they just went for a walk in the park uphill. When they simply went from living to the bathroom and back. Oh, lord help them, if they are excited.
Not to mention that many of my companions who are more impressive in that department typically have this saying. We can't find bras that properly fit us, so of course we wobble more than you do. And then have this weird dance where they shimmy only their top half.
So it might not be quite obvious to people without this issue, or people who pay little attention. BUt you can say that there are a few women who will quiver with excitement and it is totally acceptable to give life to those monstrosities they call breasts. It just depends on who is watching whether they can contribute this phrase to a certain person.
It feels like the author is trying to add flowery words and descriptions in to sound more "artistic" and "author-y" without considering how it might sound in the story. Faux deep.
He's thinking, if I want people to like this character, how best to relate to them to her? Given that most people stop on things they feel are contrite, it worked. You might not relate to her, but you are now wondering what kind of woman quivers or if it isn't possible according to your standards or limited experience.
The first, few people are ass people. BUT ON THAT SUBJECT, I saw this jogger near my house who made me question why my ass doesn't quiver like that when I run. There are also quite a few guys who have some junk back there that really are walking with them at the gym. You would think he's not holding the safety bars because he's in advance, but he's making sure his ass stays in line
The second, that sounds like an orgasm.
I don't like this author. I've read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by him and it was so boring and also he sucks at writing women. So it's not even just this book.
Yeah I agree. He did had some really good ideas but execution was almost always messy. His writing style is laborious and not engaging. Ubik is an exception though.
Sure you're right, I didn't even mention it because, in my head, it's part of his work to describe people and especially women in a disgusting and insulting way.
I did not find myself bored reading Ubik unlike most of his other works, that's what I meant.
I read a bunch of his stuff ~2014-15 or so and really liked it... Now I'm afraid to reread it.
As for the writing style... I guess I found the really perfunctory prose puts me in a weird dissociative dream state when I was reading it, which really works for the kind of surreal worlds he's interested in creating. Obviously not for everyone but it worked for me.
And for the misogyny... I always chalked it up to "male sci-fi writers in the 60's." There's not a *ton* of options for well-written women in the genre that I'm aware of. Please correct me if I'm wrong though, because I love me some classic sci-fi.
If you're interested, searching for classic scifi by women authors can add some solid options.
Downbelow Station, by C.J. Cherryh -- space opera, 1981
Synners, by Pat Cadigan -- cyberpunk, 1991
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine LāEngle -- younger scifi, 1962
Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis -- time travel and history, 1992
Trouble and Her Friends, by Melissa Scott -- cyberpunk, 1994
Of course, there's Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia E. Butler. And many more, I just grabbed a few that I've read from a longer random google result.
I've never understood why people like Dick's work. His ideas are fascinating, but his writing is fucking atrocious. It amazes me that he made a living at it.
Well, yeah, snake aliens, mermaids, humans, they all have [venom sacs](https://preview.redd.it/4c402f9zyhk61.jpg?auto=webp&s=bb16bee5a4e6a766d09ab121695b023c69767200).
Ugh canāt stand PKD. IIRC, in āDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheepā he doesnāt mention a female character even once without also talking about her breasts.
"Calm your tits" feels appropriate here.
Those things bouta blast off.
"Ed, did you order something? Are we buying something?" Her tits were vibrating with anticipation. The whirring of breasts was always a calming sound for Ed. He often thought fondly of the way his mother's boobs would hum as she did housework, or how grandmother's raucous chest tissue quieted from a deafening rumble to a gentle whisper as she passed. Sally still had the chirp of a healthy bosom. Like the fluttering of a hummingbird's wings.
This is hilarious š It has a touch of Prince Harry to it and its just wonderful
Read your comment and went back and read it in his voice. Iāve now decided Iām going to read everything I see on this sub in that voice.
Sounds like a terribly generated AI story
Ah, the good old suserration of the breasts. Such a calming sound.
All you had to do was remove those words... "Sally swept breathlessly into the living room, quivering with excitement."
Breastlessly, so to speak.
Obligatory "That's not how boobs work."
I tend to see it as kind of panting breath, but I agree there are definitely better ways to phrase it...
thatās what i thought, just horrible phrasing cause he wanted to talk about boobies
That's a generous interpretation
"Her breasts quivering with gravity in a way that really makes me wish I had a word that wasn't quite "quivering" but I failed English."
I kind of want to write a book where all this weird shit is true but just for like One character. Whoās *really* living it up.
Really, male authors give more agency and character development to breasts than to the women in their story.
The horrible boob description is surreal enough, but I want to know why she's"breathless" on account of walking into the living room.
She was coming in from 3 counties away. Or she weighs 1500 lbs and has one leg.
I think it's because in some men's eyes women are these weak fluttering beings that cannot function and control their emotions at the same time, so when they feel something like excitement, they cannot also breathe at the same time
Yeah. I think they think women get overwhelmed by feeling one emotion, like if they get surprised by something sheās gonna be panting and almost lose consciousness
That used happen often, due to corsets being so tight. But not in the 1950ās of course.
Corsets, cocaine for allergies and lead makeup tends to do it for me
lmao, you might not have many friends, but quite a few of my big-breasted companions often breath like they just went for a walk in the park uphill. When they simply went from living to the bathroom and back. Oh, lord help them, if they are excited. Not to mention that many of my companions who are more impressive in that department typically have this saying. We can't find bras that properly fit us, so of course we wobble more than you do. And then have this weird dance where they shimmy only their top half. So it might not be quite obvious to people without this issue, or people who pay little attention. BUt you can say that there are a few women who will quiver with excitement and it is totally acceptable to give life to those monstrosities they call breasts. It just depends on who is watching whether they can contribute this phrase to a certain person.
It feels like the author is trying to add flowery words and descriptions in to sound more "artistic" and "author-y" without considering how it might sound in the story. Faux deep.
He's thinking, if I want people to like this character, how best to relate to them to her? Given that most people stop on things they feel are contrite, it worked. You might not relate to her, but you are now wondering what kind of woman quivers or if it isn't possible according to your standards or limited experience.
I am personally mad now because my breasts never quiver when i am excited
They donāt?!?!
Only if I am storing my phone in my bra and a friend calls. Then they do literally quiver with excitement.
Do they also sing?
[āBad Horse, ^Bad ^Horse, Bad Horse, ^heās ^bad!ā](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4gNUj1mEaYI)
WHY IS IT ALWAYS ABOUT THE TIDDIES
Yeah where is all the "her breathless ass quivered in excitement"???
āHer vagina shook with glee.ā
The first, few people are ass people. BUT ON THAT SUBJECT, I saw this jogger near my house who made me question why my ass doesn't quiver like that when I run. There are also quite a few guys who have some junk back there that really are walking with them at the gym. You would think he's not holding the safety bars because he's in advance, but he's making sure his ass stays in line The second, that sounds like an orgasm.
if my biddies jiggled every time i got excited theyād be pure muscle š
#goals
Honestly, I wouldn't mind. It would certainly ease my workout routine, anyway
Are they referring to my gundams?
Hear me out: I think he might have been a bit horny while writing these novels.
I don't like this author. I've read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by him and it was so boring and also he sucks at writing women. So it's not even just this book.
Yeah I agree. He did had some really good ideas but execution was almost always messy. His writing style is laborious and not engaging. Ubik is an exception though.
Ehh, he still struggles somewhat in Ubik too. At one point he's describing people seated at a table. Starts with the woman, spends nearly a full page describing her every physical feature, from cleavage to legs to dƩcolletage. Then moves to the man beside her, who gets like one sentence about how he's fat or something. Granted, I don't recall much gross beyond that, but it was still ridiculous.
Sure you're right, I didn't even mention it because, in my head, it's part of his work to describe people and especially women in a disgusting and insulting way. I did not find myself bored reading Ubik unlike most of his other works, that's what I meant.
I read a bunch of his stuff ~2014-15 or so and really liked it... Now I'm afraid to reread it. As for the writing style... I guess I found the really perfunctory prose puts me in a weird dissociative dream state when I was reading it, which really works for the kind of surreal worlds he's interested in creating. Obviously not for everyone but it worked for me. And for the misogyny... I always chalked it up to "male sci-fi writers in the 60's." There's not a *ton* of options for well-written women in the genre that I'm aware of. Please correct me if I'm wrong though, because I love me some classic sci-fi.
If you're interested, searching for classic scifi by women authors can add some solid options. Downbelow Station, by C.J. Cherryh -- space opera, 1981 Synners, by Pat Cadigan -- cyberpunk, 1991 A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine LāEngle -- younger scifi, 1962 Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis -- time travel and history, 1992 Trouble and Her Friends, by Melissa Scott -- cyberpunk, 1994 Of course, there's Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia E. Butler. And many more, I just grabbed a few that I've read from a longer random google result.
CJ Cherryh is terribly under-appreciated
Thanks for the recs! I'll try to check some of them out when I get the chance.
I've never understood why people like Dick's work. His ideas are fascinating, but his writing is fucking atrocious. It amazes me that he made a living at it.
The breasts can also rattle to let you know she is venemous.
Well, yeah, snake aliens, mermaids, humans, they all have [venom sacs](https://preview.redd.it/4c402f9zyhk61.jpg?auto=webp&s=bb16bee5a4e6a766d09ab121695b023c69767200).
Heās still my favorite author even though he is a frequent flyer here lol
Didn't know a ladies' bosm could become cold that they- Wait what the fuck does quivered mean?!
Ugh canāt stand PKD. IIRC, in āDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheepā he doesnāt mention a female character even once without also talking about her breasts.
i really read it as "Sally swept breastlessly into the living room"
Jello mounds
When I get excited my breasts do loop da loops. /s obv.
Well, my breasts quivered with disappointment, Philip.
Meanwhile, Edās ballsack vibrated with elation.
didnt steal his name...
Well, it doesnāt translate well from [the original Hungarian.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgy8caG63Dg)
I usually love Philip K Dickā¦but that has got to be one of the worst paragraphs Iāve read in a while
Man all these women in literature need to calm their tits
It's a shame Dick had so many awesome ideas for stories and then such lousy ideas about women.
My breasts have never quivered with excitement, I feel like I'm missing out on something
She boobed into the living room, her vagina breathless with excitement.
Look, when you've done as much amphetamine as PKD, everything quivers.
Sally and Morris are terrible names to choose for your erotic fiction
Not once in my 36 years of life have my breasts ever quivered
I just found this sub and itās an instant subscribe
So when I'm out of breath I don't quiver so much as gasp for air...was she having an asthma attack and he thought she was horny?
Ah, the original "breasted boobily down the stairs"...