Yes, Mailer was a mysogynist


	Yes, Mailer was a mysogynist

Carmeloruiz

11-21-2007 12:16 PM

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The obits don't make much of this but it should be said straight out: Mailer did a lot of harm in his life.  He stabbed his  second wife, Adele Morales, and it wasn't some larger-than-life zany antic they both had a good laugh over later: he nearly killed her.  Psychologically, a recent New York times story suggested,  she never recovered. He helped  get the  writer and murderer Jack Abbott out of  prison ,  and immediately plunged this  unbalanced man who had spent over half his life behind bars   into the heady world of literary celebrity; within days Abbott had killed a waiter he imagined was dissing him.   Several obits have humorously recounted how Mailer assaulted on the street a sailor he thought called his dog gay, but the near murder of Morales, and the actual murder of Richie Adan by  Mailer's protege, show that his infatuation with machismo was not just a literary joke, much less endearing protective covering for his inner  nice-Brooklyn-boy-who-loved-his-mother.  
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