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===Writing style and beliefs=== As a writer, Jim Goad has been called the "poster boy for the transgressive school of writing."<ref name="PXLife"/> [[Chuck Palahniuk]] describes Goad's writing style as being "brutally honest without worrying about being correct."<ref name="PXLife"/> Goad's work examines American culture, often popular and political culture. His early work reads anti-[[politically correct]] and as [[shock value]], while his later work, like the ''Redneck Manifesto,'' and journalism contributions have marked Goad as a political and societal commentator. In his political commentary he has described [[Conservatism in the United States|conservatives]] and [[Liberalism in the United States|liberals]] in the United States as "two asscheeks surrounding the same hairy bunghole," and that politicians know how to take advantage of lower- and middle-class people because of a human's innate tribalism.<ref name="HumorisDead"/> He has stated his support for [[Donald Trump]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/noteconomicallyviable/episodes/2017-07-11T11_01_55-07_00|title=Jim Goad on Why Donald Trump Was REALLY Elected|date=2017-07-12|publisher=Podomatic}}</ref> ====''ANSWER Me!''==== {{Main|Answer Me! (magazine)}} From 1991 to 1994, Goad [[Self-publishing|self-published]] four yearly issues of the zine ''ANSWER Me!'', with then-wife Debbie Goad.<ref name="BigCityRDNK"/> It featured illustrations by [[Nick Bougas]]. With a circulation of 13,000 the magazine sought to upset [[politically correct]] thinkers by covering subjects about race and feminism. The publication was banned and seized by customs officials in several countries, and the final ''Rape Issue'' was rejected by some bookstore owners. The zine, called "massively influential" by ''[[Bizarre (magazine)|Bizarre]]'', would also be credited as an inspiration by [[Francisco Martin Duran]], who took 29 shots at the [[White House]],<ref name="Bizarre1"/> influencing the suicides of three British [[Neo-Nazi]]s, and a possible influence on [[Kurt Cobain]]'s suicide.<ref name="NYPress1"/> ====''The Redneck Manifesto''==== In 1994, Goad signed a two-book deal with [[Simon & Schuster]] for $100,000.<ref name="LLC1999">{{cite magazine|last=Smith|first=RJ|title=American Psycho|magazine=Spin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YG5YubNw1pgC&pg=PA101|access-date=4 October 2011|edition=15|volume=1|date=January 1999 |pages=101β109|issn=0886-3032}}</ref> ''The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats'' was published in 1997. The book explores the idea of poor whites celebrating their heritage similar to poor African Americans, and that discrimination in the United States is focused around [[social class]], not [[Race (classification of humans)|race]]. His thesis is that the rich elite blind the poor, and cause them to fight one another, instead of working together for their mutual benefit.<ref name="Colorado">{{cite web |url=http://cozine.com/1997-december/the-redneck-manifesto-by-jim-goad/ |title=The Redneck Manifesto by Jim Goad |author=Marcia Darnell |date=December 1997 |work=Rural Life |publisher=Colorado Central |access-date=25 February 2012 |archive-date=18 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018064134/http://cozine.com/1997-december/the-redneck-manifesto-by-jim-goad/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> ====''Shit Magnet''==== ''Shit Magnet: One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt'', is Goad's second book. Major New York publishing houses declined to publish ''Shit Magnet'',<ref name="Offend1">{{cite web |url=http://life.salon.com/2001/06/14/angry_males/ |title=I offend, therefore I am |author=Amy Benfer |year=2001 |work=Paul Shirley |publisher=Salon.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502145053/http://www.life.salon.com/2001/06/14/angry_males/ |archive-date=2 May 2012 |url-status=dead |access-date=3 October 2011 }}</ref> and it was published in 2002 by [[Feral House]]. The book, written while Goad was in prison, is an [[autobiography]]. It examines Goad's childhood, teenage years, his relationships with former wife Debbie Goad and ex-girlfriend Anne Ryan, and reflections about his time in prison and his experience with the judicial system. The book includes great detail about Oregon prison life, including detailed descriptions about fellow prisoners, of whom he writes "forced sterilization maybe wasn't such a bad idea."<ref name="PXLife"/> Writer [[John Strausbaugh]] described ''Shit Magnet'' as "extremely painful" in detail and comparative in drama to the autobiography of [[Klaus Kinski]].<ref name="NYPress1"/> ''Humor is Dead'' calls ''Shit Magnet'' a "sordid and often shocking personal allegory of guilt and violence."<ref name="HumorisDead">{{cite web |url=http://www.humorisdead.com/news/goad.html |title=An Interview with Jim Goad |year=2003 |publisher=Humor is Dead |access-date=25 February 2012}}</ref> In 2008, a play titled "Torn Between Two Bitches," was produced in [[Los Angeles]] by Michael Sargent, based on ''Shit Magnet''.<ref name="LAist">{{cite web |url=http://laist.com/2008/10/30/torn_between_two_bitches_answer_me_gets_even_more_self-indulgent.php |title=Torn Between Two Bitches @ The Unknown Theater |author=Brian M. Clark |year=2008 |publisher=[[LAist]] |access-date=25 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615005732/http://laist.com/2008/10/30/torn_between_two_bitches_answer_me_gets_even_more_self-indulgent.php |archive-date=15 June 2011 }}</ref> ====Other work==== He wrote a [[comic]] called ''Trucker Fags in Denial'', which was originally published as a comic strip in the Portland-based publication ''Exotic'' and was published as a comic book by [[Fantagraphics]] in 2004.<ref name="HumorisDead" /><ref name="SwagRag">{{cite web |url=http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-3480-goad_warrior.html |title=Goad Warrior |author=Byron Beck|author-link=Byron Beck (blogger) |year=2004 |work=Swag Rag |publisher=[[Willamette Week]] |access-date=25 February 2012}}</ref><ref name="SG">{{cite web |url=http://suicidegirls.com/interviews/Jim+Goad/ |title=Jim Goad |author=SG Jaime |year=2005 |work=Interviews |publisher=[[Suicide Girls]] |access-date=25 February 2012}}</ref> The comic, written by Goad and illustrated by Jim Blanchard, is about two [[trucker]]s named Butch and Petey. The two characters are [[homophobic]] and beat up gays between trucking. The characters contradict their behavior by having a [[homosexual]] relationship with each other. Goad came up with the idea for the comic while in prison, where he frequently observed male prisoners insulting each other as being "fags," and as "fagging off,' despite engaging in homosexual acts themselves while incarcerated.<ref name="SwagRag" /><ref name="SG" /> ''[[Willamette Week]]''{{'}}s gay columnist [[Byron Beck (blogger)|Byron Beck]] described ''Trucker Fags in Denial'' as "twisted, vile, unrepentant ... and absolutely hilarious."<ref name="SwagRag" /> In 2007, ''Jim Goad's Gigantic Book of Sex'' was published.<ref name="BigCityRDNK">{{cite web |url=http://www.bigcityredneck.co.uk/articles/Jim_Goad/86/7/1 |title=Jim Goad |author=Justin Farrington |year=2008 |work=Interviews |publisher=Big City Redneck |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404184004/http://www.bigcityredneck.co.uk/articles/Jim_Goad/86/7/1 |archive-date=4 April 2012 |access-date=18 February 2014}}</ref> The book consists of over 100 articles, [[op-ed]]s and facts about [[sex]], all written by Goad.<ref name="MetroTimes">{{cite web |url=http://www2.metrotimes.com/arts/story.asp?id=13693 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214142934/http://metrotimes.com/arts/story.asp?id=13693 |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 14, 2009 |title=Lust Issues |author=Michael Jackman |year=2009 |department=Lit Up |work=Metro Times |access-date=25 February 2012 }}</ref> Goad writes a weekly column for ''[[Taki's Magazine]]'' and [[Greg Johnson (white nationalist)|Greg Johnson]].{{citation needed|date=March 2023|reason=please cite an independent source which provides context for why this column is encyclopedically significant.}} Goad has also contributed to ''[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]''{{citation needed|date=November 2019}} and ''[[Hustler (magazine)|Hustler]]''.<ref name="HumorisDead" />
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