Kate Millett's view of "The White Negro" criticized Mailer of making a virtue of violence. In her book "Sexual Politics", she makes the claim that Mailer finds that violence is something that he has fallen in love with as a personal and sexual style. She states that for Mailer, "a rapist is only rapist to a square" and that "rape is a part of life". Millett goes on to criticize Mailer of matching the aesthetic of Hip to harmful masculine pride. Additionally, Millett accuses "WN" of celebrating and romanticizing stereotypes about Black hyper-sexuality.