Again, Martin Amis

I'm reading through Norman Mailer's The Prisoner of Sex and Martin Amis' The Pregnant Widow and reading them side-by-side, I begin to see a connection in their views of women. The master and the pupil take from one another, though of course the pupil takes even more than the master.

Amis has a break from Mailer, however. He has a more favorable view of the sexual revolution than Mailer does (though both clearly benefited from it). Mailer looks terrified seeing the Women's Libbers, Amis looks detached, but fondly. He views the revolution with terror. Of course, he was afraid of a left-wing totalitarianism stemming from the more militant and radical feminists. Amis and his crew seem more afraid of the idea that the sexual revolution might end before they've slept with everyone.

Mailer was interested in it for a political reason (misguided and paranoid, in my opinion, but still valid and worth hearing) where Amis was interested only in his personal benefits, until recently.

JPC