New hyperfixation!! (+rant)

The catcher in the rye. Yep, exactly. i FUCKING LOVE THIS BOOK. 

I've seen people boiling it down to just another "male manipulator" media but tbh this book is so much more than that and means so much to me. Let's not compare it to "no longer human" or whatever. I love the way the book is written. And yes, i love Holden. Might be surprising, i know. i think this book is overhated and deserves so much more love than it gets. 

It got me to be emotional. No, it's not boring. Like, at all, at least for me. 

And i don't get how anyone could ever hate Holden. 

He's just a mentally ill teenager (probably neurodivergent too but idk about that) who experienced forms of SA that is just... living? He did basically nothing wrong, i'll be his defender for life. I actually fucking love him sm. And, i think he represents teens pretty well. i think people stop liking this book after high school bc they forget how it feels to be a kid. 

I relate to Holden. We have opposite personalities but we both care so much about things, deeply, even tho he doesnt show it much, he just does. And he's nostalgic, like me. 

I think Holden is just misunderstood. i think it takes a certain level of empathy to understand him and to appreciate his character. 

It makes me sad that people compare him to violent creeps from incel media or some shit, cuz he's actually awesome and he's just a CHILD. People forget about that small detail, because he drinks and smokes for all the book. Not to mention that one of his classmate literally kills himself while wearing his jacket, and the school he goes in sucks. He probably has got lots of trauma from it. He even went into a psychward, for god sake. 

In the end, Holden Caulfield is a victim. No matter what y'all say.