Some of my favorite autobiographical works: Ben Franklin's Autobiography Trollope's Autobiography Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology Durrell's My Family and Other Animals Johnson's Wing Leader Rousseau's Confessions Caesar's Conquest of Gaul Xenophon's Persian Expedition
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I was just taking your idea and linking it to the idea of the dominance of male authors in the common reading repertoire
Good reply. But the problem is that this link is among those most commonly made, and thus contains the least information.
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this seems like it could also be interpreted as policing orthodoxy. There's something interesting (and perhaps ironic) about how perceived (or intended) criticisms on both sides of this conversation follow a similar fallacious structure or assumption
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Interesting. The least useful or interesting information I guess. I still think that biases (whether conscious/subconscious/societal) are worth uncovering though.
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What was missing from your first reply was the callout that ‘mostly male authors’ an industry problem, not a PG problem—which felt like a jab.
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