We need a good psychic medium please. We need to get into contact with Oscar Wilde and tell him his entire body of work is rubbish because he didn't write exclusively about highly-educated gay or bisexual white men with a talent for sarcasm.
Good rant, m'dear, I'm just sorry this was ever needed. Not just from the writer point of view. From the human point of view. Saying 'only a X can write X well' means that all X (gay, lesbian, Native Americans, blacks, women, men etc) must be more similar to other Xs than to any other non-Xs. Practically homogeneous.
That kind of thinking scares the shit out of me.
It takes me a considerably larger effort of the imagination to get into the head of certain women I know, than it takes me to understand some gay or Arabic friends of mine.
That's like saying that, because I'm a straight, 35-year-old white woman, I can get into the head, understand and write about...oh, I donno...Ann Coulter...
...May I please have a gender, sexual orientation or color-swap, please? Oscar Wilde, mate, can I join your club?
PS: I took your quiz. 1) Fangirl (I could be wrong) 2)...I had to read that one twice before I thought hey, waitaminute ^__^; 3) Male. 4) Female.
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Date: 28 Jul 2005 02:30 pm (UTC)Good rant, m'dear, I'm just sorry this was ever needed. Not just from the writer point of view. From the human point of view. Saying 'only a X can write X well' means that all X (gay, lesbian, Native Americans, blacks, women, men etc) must be more similar to other Xs than to any other non-Xs. Practically homogeneous.
That kind of thinking scares the shit out of me.
It takes me a considerably larger effort of the imagination to get into the head of certain women I know, than it takes me to understand some gay or Arabic friends of mine.
That's like saying that, because I'm a straight, 35-year-old white woman, I can get into the head, understand and write about...oh, I donno...Ann Coulter...
...May I please have a gender, sexual orientation or color-swap, please? Oscar Wilde, mate, can I join your club?
PS: I took your quiz.
1) Fangirl (I could be wrong)
2)...I had to read that one twice before I thought hey, waitaminute ^__^;
3) Male.
4) Female.