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Feminist Author: White Men Need to Stop Writing So Much
Pundit Press ^ | 6/4/15 | Aurelius

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."

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To: rightistight
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Especially white males ghost writing for future black presidents.

21 posted on 06/04/2015 1:01:57 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: rightistight
Actually, in this case, the best result would be for him to take her advice and for her to write much less...because it isn't fair that she has to work so hard to compete with white male privilege. She deserves a few years off. :)
22 posted on 06/04/2015 1:03:26 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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To: rightistight
Feminist Author: White Men Need to Stop Writing So Much

White men need to start bitchslapping obnoxious loud mouthed feminists who's mouths write checks their @$$es can't cash.

23 posted on 06/04/2015 1:04:52 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: rightistight
I get the feeling that question is not serious, and only intended to goad the woman into giving the response that she did.

I will say this much: if it's true when she writes "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..."

If more submissions exceed the natural talent pool because of filling quotas, then the result will be more bad poetry attributed to women, and not men. Maybe the reason that there are less women getting published is that's all that today's talent pool is producing. Don't force more submissions, encourage more education and wait for the submissions to naturally occur.

-PJ

24 posted on 06/04/2015 1:05:17 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: rightistight

“Privilege” is the code-word for demanding white people kill themselves because of the color of their skin.

It is the open justification of racist murder.

Nothing less.


25 posted on 06/04/2015 1:07:34 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: MplsSteve

Demonstration of why you should never argue with an idiot. If you halve the idiocy displayed by these idiots you still have idiocy!


26 posted on 06/04/2015 1:13:15 PM PDT by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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To: rightistight

What, we’re supposed to take up Rapping?!

Ain’t gonna sell...


27 posted on 06/04/2015 1:13:49 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: rightistight

Who taught this sad creature to hate himself so?


28 posted on 06/04/2015 1:15:40 PM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: rightistight

was it “pajama boy”?


29 posted on 06/04/2015 1:16:55 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: rightistight
...they need to stop appropriating other people's culture.

Is this a two way street? Will hippity hoppers and pop dance acts stop sampling rock and roll songs (lifting the famous 'hook' ensuring a new memorable 'hit')?

30 posted on 06/04/2015 1:20:00 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
White Men need to be exterminated completely and all of humanity can finally live in harmony & peace!

That's exactly what they mean! Wonder what it will be like for future generations of whites in this country, especially when they are a small minority? We can see what's happening, it's getting more and more blatant.

31 posted on 06/04/2015 1:21:23 PM PDT by Nea Wood
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To: rightistight

white guilt. white guilt. white guilt


32 posted on 06/04/2015 1:23:21 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: rightistight

Like all rad feminists, Ms. Gabbert has a few loose screws.


33 posted on 06/04/2015 1:24:15 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: tanknetter
Since the only people who will be shamed into writing less are White Liberal Males, I’m ok with this.
My thought exactly.

34 posted on 06/04/2015 1:24:53 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Can we start with David Brooks?


35 posted on 06/04/2015 1:26:18 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: TMA62
White men need to stop reading dribble from Feminazi’s.

I started to correct you, thinking you meant "Drivel", but on second thought...

36 posted on 06/04/2015 1:30:53 PM PDT by Chuckster ("Them Rag Heads just ain't rational" Curly Bartley 1973)
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To: rightistight
"...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..."


37 posted on 06/04/2015 1:31:03 PM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.)
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To: Blaine Fabin
I think the obvious solution here is for the poet in question to change his gender...

From the sounds of his pathetic whining, I'm thinking that it wouldn't be all that drastic a change. With a can or two of spray tan and an X-acto knife, he can eliminate that pesky "privilege" he's suffering from.

38 posted on 06/04/2015 1:32:53 PM PDT by Bob (No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not accomplishments; they're jobs.)
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To: rightistight

I am so effing sick of these people.


39 posted on 06/04/2015 1:33:41 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: rightistight

40 posted on 06/04/2015 1:34:58 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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