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 ...
"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.""Fixed" is pretty much the solution that looms, but we will finish first.
This is satire, right? Please tell me this is satire!
He writes verse.
Time will tell if what he writes is poetry or not.
I agree with you, but I had just assumed the two examples you cited were women.
What ugly-a$$ b!tc* means is that men should be subject to women.
That said, there is little more demeaning in any art as to demand your competitors stifle themselves because you can't compete with them.
“I, eye.”
+1!
In this case I agree. White males that are concerned about white male privilege (otherwise known as idiots) should write less. In fact, to overcome the imbalance cause by white males that do not believe in white male privilege, the idiots should completely stop writing.
Oh Shit!
Jus’ Damn!
I’m White!
I’m Male!
I Am!
I believe “feminist” authors should stop writing, talking...and breathing.
Thanks!
No trouble, Hal. Did ya like mah poem? Heck I might go pro...ya know, snappin’ fingers, wearin’ a beret.....oh, an’ the venti expresso...
Yep.
He has extended what remains of his logical process
found support among peers and concluded, to write less.
Translation (high-pitched squealing voice):
"I'm one of the good ones! See, I have my mind right! I know you're going to like me!"
And he got smacked right in the face anyway. Serves his pathetic butt right.
It’s a tie.
women, POC, and LGBTQ
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What the heck is POC?
LOL
The Grumpy Cat meme would say to feminist authors "You should give blood - All of it".
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