The Loneliness of the Old White Male

[likethebeer]

Nice take down of a man named David Gilmour - who is "a novelist and a broadcaster; he teaches a few classes at Victoria College; and he makes extremely blinkered statements about literature" - and a nice discussion of literature professors, and what they try to do.

http://www.dispositio.net/archives/1688

Comments

[immemor.livejournal.com]

Women weren’t allowed to write, go to school or have experiences. Thus, we have accumulated fewer great female writers by this at this point in history. Novel writing takes freedom and women didn’t have it. Their absence on “a lists of greats” is a product of gender and class oppression. As far as I’m concerned, women have only been writing novels since 1960. It’s going to take time to catch up to the boys.

We may complain about what this guy is saying but we share his bias. I have seen your bookshelf and it is over 90% male. As is mine.