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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
Posted on 10/01/2021 10:47:55 PM PDT by 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.'
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TOPICS: Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: feminazis; metoo; robertharris; timesup
Yesterday there was this book on a chair I wanted to sit on in a mall bookshop. A Lucky find.
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?
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posted on
10/01/2021 10:54:16 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: Berlin_Freeper
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posted on
10/01/2021 11:05:33 PM PDT
by
Berlin_Freeper
(President Trump: "It's a great vaccine, it's a safe vaccine and it's something that works.")
To: Berlin_Freeper
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posted on
10/01/2021 11:45:10 PM PDT
by
GOP Poet
(Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
To: Berlin_Freeper
'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.
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
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posted on
10/02/2021 12:08:33 AM PDT
by
Berlin_Freeper
(President Trump: "It's a great vaccine, it's a safe vaccine and it's something that works.")
To: Berlin_Freeper
to those tired of woketard liberals
tune them out, laugh at them, do what you want, and go galt
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posted on
10/02/2021 12:16:49 AM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
The flip side is that if he didn't write about females and minorities, he'd be accused of not having enough diversity.
To: Berlin_Freeper
The wokerati would prefer Shakespeare had written Romeo and Fabio...
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posted on
10/02/2021 5:19:48 AM PDT
by
Moltke
(Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
..'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.
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posted on
10/02/2021 6:38:55 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(Prima di ogni altra cosa, siati armati!)
To: Moltke
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posted on
10/02/2021 7:36:48 AM PDT
by
Berlin_Freeper
(President Trump: "It's a great vaccine, it's a safe vaccine and it's something that works.")
To: Berlin_Freeper
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
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posted on
10/02/2021 7:44:17 AM PDT
by
Cecily
To: Berlin_Freeper
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...
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posted on
10/02/2021 8:51:41 AM PDT
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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