Posted on 06/04/2015 12:42:28 PM PDT by rightistight
Writing online, author Elisa Gabbert answered one of her reader's questions about whether he should stop writing because of his "privilege" of being white and male.
An anonymous reader asked Gabbert:
"I am a white, male poet—a white, male poet who is aware of his privilege and sensitive to inequalities facing women, POC, and LGBTQ individuals in and out of the writing community—but despite this awareness and sensitivity, I am still white and still male. Sometimes I feel like the time to write from my experience has passed, that the need for poems from a white, male perspective just isn’t there anymore, and that the torch has passed to writers of other communities whose voices have too long been silenced or suppressed... I genuinely am troubled by this. I want to listen but I also want to write—yet at times these impulses feel at odds with one another. How can I reconcile the two?"Gabbert's response? White men need to stop taking more than their "fair share" of being published and they need to stop appropriating other people's culture.
...White men need to stop writing so much and stop writing so well, Gabbert explains. "Editors make excuses about their submission pools – they get far more submissions and pitches from men than women. Then people inevitably respond by telling women to write more, submit more, and pitch more. I think this is exactly the wrong response: Instead we should tell men to submit less. Pitch less. Especially white men. You are already over-represented."
Further, "You – white men – have all the advantages here, so you should work to solve the problem of imbalance, instead of putting all the burden on women, POC, and LGBTQ to fix it themselves."
(Excerpt) Read more at punditpress.com ...
White men need to stop reading dribble from Feminazi’s.
I’m not sure who is more stupid...
(a). the guy who asked the question
or
(b). the woman who answered it
Based on the current state of poetry, all poets should stop writing.
Of course comrade! The way FORWARD to “equality™” and “fairness™” is to suppress the productive, to dumb down society to the lowest common denominator and to bring all of us (other than the ruling elite) to the same dismal level.
Since the only people who will be shamed into writing less are White Liberal Males, I’m ok with this.
Can we please start with Dana Milbank and EJ Dionne?
I bet the guy has writer’s block.
Insane drooling bigots.
Post of the day!
I think the obvious solution here is for the poet in question to change his gender...
So... censorship. Again, from the open-minded free thinkers. M’kay...
Real meaning....
White Men need to be exterminated completely and all of humanity can finally live in harmony & peace!
I’m a poet but I don’t know it.
As white men need to write less women need to return to the kitchen more. Most normal healthy people tire of PC.
This guarantees that any poetry you produce will be unreadable drivel. Maybe you could go back to school and learn to be an HVAC technician.
Elisa Gabbert needs to stop wasting valuable sammich fixin time and hop to it.
“I am a white, male poet—a white, male poet who is aware of his privilege and sensitive to inequalities facing women, POC, and LGBTQ...”
Total simp mangina.
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