Posted on 05/06/2015 12:35:11 PM PDT by rightistight
In possibly the dumbest article to ever be written, Gawker author and NYU teacher Josephine Livingstone called for the banning of men from moderating literary reading.
The article is titled “Ban Men from Literary Readings” and is literally several paragraphs of sexist ramblings, comments on the fact that many men are straight, and stereotypes.
Ms. Livingstone’s piece begins with her complaining that, at a book-reading, that a moderator didn’t choose her to ask a question.
“There’s a procession of question-askers,” she writes, “professors, grad students, writers, editors, self-appointed smart guys. Well-intentioned, each one.” She adds, for no discernible reason, “The vast majority are straight. Some are even married.”
...Women, according to Ms. Livingstone, are taught by society to not raise their hands, even when they know an answer. “This self-censoring behavior, once learned at school, seems to stay with young women and other groups outside the white-dude enclave well into adulthood.”
...Her answer to these problems? “This, then, must be the real demand of those who moderate readings: fire the moderators. Stop asking famous men to host your book launch on the vague assumption that they’ll draw a crowd.”
This is her last paragraph in its entirety:
One day, perhaps, we all shall be on that slightly raised stage in front of some fixed mics, and frail old men will clamor for our attention and for hardbacked copies of our works. “Hear me now, [expletive]?” we’ll shriek at them, feedback ringing through the bookstore aisles. “Do you hear me now?”
(Excerpt) Read more at thepunditpress.com ...
Woody Allen in drag.
Evidently she’s a graduate student in the NYU English Department, working for a degree, not a professor. Still, no doubt she’s heading for the top of academia!
http://nyu.academia.edu/JosephineLivingstone
Based on the picture, how can anyone tell?
>> What sort of dreck is being stuffed into students’ heads at some phenomenal tuition rate? No wonder the nation is in the mess it is in.
And consider that a previous generation of “academics” at “Some U” stuffed this crapola into HER head.
The cancer has had several generations over which to grow and metastasize.
Polly wanna cracker?
Josephine? Bothered that most men are straight? On a websearch shows up commenting on a lot of transsexual and homosexual articles?
Ummm... OK...
It’s so quaint that she thinks there will be bookstores in the future.
This is standard postmodernistic prejudice and propaganda. Feminist postmodernists are not only anti men, but also anti heterosexual, married, old, Christian, rich, white men of European descent. These are all the oppressors and victimizers of the neoproletariat combined into one group.
Woof!!
She looks like Garth from Wayne’s World.
(I’m a woman, so I’m not being sexist, just observant)
Mx. Livingstone, I presume?
Women should be exiled to the kitchen where they can make me lots of samiches.
I think she would have trouble functioning as a psychotic. However, probably fits right in as a neurotic.
Men should not be banned from literary readings. I will demonstrate why we should not be banned by reading from my most recent contribution, “Ode to a Commode”.
Oops, that is poetry, not literature. My bad.
I think fear has gripped what little mind they have left, knowing Obama their progressive messiah was just a bad cartoon character...
Their utopian vision has been destroyed and they project that out as hateful pablum nobody can comprehend or believe...
But it sounds good...
How does it KNOW this?
Did it poll those who were chosen to ask questions?
..a BAD blond wig...
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