Well, it's a nasty enough conclusion, but I don't know about
gruesome. And I wonder, really, if part of its offensiveness
is simply that women are the target of its fury. If you buy
the premise, doesn't it really, in all honesty, apply as well
to men?
Most women don't want a man who's slept with more than X
number of women either. It could just as easily read:
...once he reaches his own number, once X pairs of hungry
hands have been clamped tightly around his shoulders, he
suffers a sea change wherein his juices alter from honey to
acid, his passion simply becomes mechanics satisfying a mere
biological itch, his eyes change to glass, his heart becomes
a stone, and his mouth a windy cave from whence, with each
monstrous gasping, comes a tiny stink of death.
Maybe it's not so much an indictment of women, but of the
hedonistic lifestyle that McGee both championed and
disdained.
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