I've seen this book quite a lot in the Spanish community.

While it explains why men love it so much, I'll never read Tender Is The Flesh now that I checked the summary on Wikipedia. I'm aware that a synopsis written by someone else isn't the best representation of a story, but my choice stands firm as the events are the same whether I interpret them differently or not.

Every 'criticism of capitalism' is always just pure misogyny, still seen from a male lens, and further proves my theory that men invented money to reduce women even more to commodities. Somehow, people love to pretend we're in a parallel world to that, when we see everyday men playing with women's basic rights and conducting femicide at a whim. This book about cannibalism, supposedly using such a gruesome topic as a vehicle to criticize the system men set up, ends up just being about a male raping a heavily tortured child-like woman and getting her murdered. Another woman tries to protect her by saying she can 'give them' more children. Meanwhile, in this world, children and adults alike are forced to create life in more and more countries. And nobody cares, since it benefits capitalism and obviously their creators. The ones getting absolutely stripped of their humanity are only ever women. The sickest of minds will justify it by bringing biology into it, but objectively males can be exploited for reproduction far easier and quicker.

In real life, we're banned from every social media for exposing men's hatred for women. But when someone writes a piece perpetuating this hatred to show how fucked up this fictional world they made up is, suddenly it's all praise and prizes. The torture men enact on women can only be depicted and talked to when the subject is completely erased and the pain is fetishized.