Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Boohoo …

 In No Regrets, women writers talk about what it was like to read literature's "midcentury misogynists."  (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I have grown tired of people and their grievances.
When women read the hyper-masculine literary canon, their discomfort is punctuated by the knowledge that their male peers are reading these books, identifying with them, and acting out their perspectives and narratives.
And what do women do when they read the feminine literary canon? 

2 comments:

  1. The punctuation seems to consist mostly of exclamation marks and ellipses, no?

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  2. If not the punctuation, certainly the viewpoint. You don't like a book, stop reading it (unless you're being paid to).

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