My small and narrow lifehttps://nypost.com/2020/02/08/how-i-went-from-troubled-foster-kid-to-scholar-at-yale-and-cambridge/ …
"Men write books. But their lives are so limited. It’s such a small and narrow experience."
-- the @guardian doing its thing.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/10/marian-keyes-is-right-books-by-male-authors-are-overrated …
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Great piece! I have a question. I am also from an underprivileged home, and also ended up with a postgraduate Psychology degree. Can you tell me, what do you think is the most important factor in overcoming an adverse early childhood? Luck? Will? Genes? I say Will myself.
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Just try imaging a man saying the reverse. He would driven out of the public square in record time by an enraged mob. Afterwards if he applied under a fake name he maybe could get a job as a janitor. Yet causal sexism against men is not only tolerated, it’s celebrated.
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Exactly, this is a beautiful example of culturally accepted misandry - particularly on the progressive left. I’m not complaining about it, it’s to be expected. I’m just saying it’s a reality we need to acknowledge.
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The bourgeois write books. But their lives are so limited. It’s such a small and narrow experience. Bourgeois consumption being the very definition of a small meaningless life.
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Precisely. Like Ernest Hemingway or Tolstoy. They had such a 'narrow' experience of life, as madame sips latte' at her favourite Bourgeoisie hang out. What actual thoughts run through these peoples minds?
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What if we all read both? Good authors, whether men or women? Or is that a little too radical?
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Heretic!
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Writers for the Guardian have extremely limited lives. It's such a small, narrow, confined, restricted and yes, guarded experience it leads to BS columns like this.
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What an absolutely ridiculous and clearly inaccurate notion. The ability to write a great book has zero to do with your experience. You’re either a good writer or a bad writer. A good storyteller or a teller of stories that are not so good. Gender does not enter into the equation
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