It’s ludicrous to say I can’t write about a woman... Author Robert Harris blasts back at the woke warriors

dailymail.co.uk ^ | 12 September 2020 | COLE MORETON

[Berlin_Freeper]

'This is a hill worth dying on,' says the best-selling thriller writer Robert Harris, defending his right to create a character of any colour or gender, whatever the woke warriors may say.

'We have to have the artistic freedom to imagine and write about other sexes, other times. I think that is very important. Are you saying a woman can’t write a book in which there’s a male character? It’s ludicrous.'

[Berlin_Freeper]

Yesterday there was this book on a chair I wanted to sit on in a mall bookshop. A Lucky find.

[Gene Eric]

There are the petulant few Woke asshots, and the Woke CEOs.

Why does anyone GAS with the asshots think, and why are the Woke corps being patronized?

[Berlin_Freeper]

V2 by Robert Harris review – fears of a rocket man

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

'It’s a monstrous concept,' says the author of rip-roaring, best-selling historical thrillers including Fatherland, Enigma, Pompeii and Conclave. 'I have written about German staff officers, codebreakers, ancient Romans and been inside the mind of a candidate for Pope. That is the pleasure of writing, to inhabit the thought processes of someone else...'If we can only live in our own time, race, gender, sexuality and life experience, then all poetry, all artistic endeavour withers into [nothing]. There would be no point in doing it. I don’t want to write books about myself.'

This is insane. It reduces all future literature to ghettos of time, place, color, sexuality, etc. Can I write about black Civil War soldiers? No, I am not black and didn't live during the Civil War (the first one, anyway.) As a white man, I can only write about white men. If I want to introduce a romantic interest, it would necessarily be homosexual. My first thought was to wonder whether there were enough people who were bonkers to make this happen, but this guy knows more about than I would ever know, and he is alarmed.

It would be funny if he would pull out this bit of dialogue from "A Good As It Gets":

How do you write about women so well?

I think of a man, and take away reason and responsibility.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Haha, good post!

[Secret Agent Man]

to those tired of woketard liberals

tune them out, laugh at them, do what you want, and go galt

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

The flip side is that if he didn't write about females and minorities, he'd be accused of not having enough diversity.

[Moltke]

The wokerati would prefer Shakespeare had written Romeo and Fabio...

[Roccus]

..'If we can only live in our own time, race, gender, sexuality and life experience, then all poetry, all artistic endeavour withers into [nothing]. There would be no point in doing it. I don’t want to write books about myself

Perhaps Mr. Harris can become a reporter for the MSM and satisfy his thirst for writing fiction there.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Great comment 👍

[Cecily]

Just think of all the memorable and well realized characters in literature and drama (plays and movies) created by a writer of the opposite sex. This whole notion is absurd.

Emily Bronte - not allowed to create Heathcliff

Charlotte Bronte - not allowed to create Mr. Rochester

William Thackeray - not allowed to create Becky Sharp

William Shakespeare - not allowed to create Juliet or Katharina

Tennessee Williams - not allowed to create Blanche DuBois

[Chode]

yet these are prolly the same ones what whine about writers having to write girls and queer characters with “Meaningful Dialog” into everything or they won’t even be considered for one of their mutual admiration/masturbation circle trinkets...