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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: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
"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.
41 posted on 06/04/2015 1:43:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: rightistight

This is satire, right? Please tell me this is satire!


42 posted on 06/04/2015 1:43:58 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: rightistight
Anyone who refers to himself as a "poet" is not actually a poet.

He writes verse.

Time will tell if what he writes is poetry or not.

43 posted on 06/04/2015 1:45:30 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: tanknetter

I agree with you, but I had just assumed the two examples you cited were women.


44 posted on 06/04/2015 1:46:40 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: rightistight

What ugly-a$$ b!tc* means is that men should be subject to women.


45 posted on 06/04/2015 1:47:56 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: rightistight
From a scarred veteran of the field - it really helps to get your foot in a publisher's (or even an agent's) door if you're NOT white and male. They're looking to sell. White males aren't as marketable. It's the facts on the ground.

That said, there is little more demeaning in any art as to demand your competitors stifle themselves because you can't compete with them.

46 posted on 06/04/2015 1:50:16 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: dainbramaged

“I, eye.”


47 posted on 06/04/2015 1:51:26 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Liberty Valance

+1!


48 posted on 06/04/2015 1:53:35 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Everybody wants to be a cat.)
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To: rightistight

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.


49 posted on 06/04/2015 2:06:08 PM PDT by fini
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To: needmorePaine

Oh Shit!

Jus’ Damn!

I’m White!

I’m Male!

I Am!


50 posted on 06/04/2015 3:04:05 PM PDT by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
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To: SgtBob

I believe “feminist” authors should stop writing, talking...and breathing.


51 posted on 06/04/2015 3:24:33 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen
I believe “feminist” authors should stop writing, talking...and breathing. There, I fixed it fer ya!
52 posted on 06/04/2015 3:32:07 PM PDT by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
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To: SgtBob

Thanks!


53 posted on 06/04/2015 3:33:01 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen

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...


54 posted on 06/04/2015 3:38:20 PM PDT by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
I bet the guy has writer’s block.

Yep.

He has extended what remains of his logical process

found support among peers and concluded, to write less.

55 posted on 06/04/2015 3:45:48 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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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...."

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.

56 posted on 06/04/2015 3:55:58 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
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To: MplsSteve

It’s a tie.


57 posted on 06/04/2015 5:51:27 PM PDT by GOPJ (If the MSM stops lying about conservatives, we'll stop telling the truth about them.)
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To: rightistight

women, POC, and LGBTQ
.....................

What the heck is POC?


58 posted on 06/04/2015 6:12:35 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: SgtBob

LOL


59 posted on 06/05/2015 5:37:29 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen
"...I believe “feminist” authors should stop writing, talking...and breathing..."

The Grumpy Cat meme would say to feminist authors "You should give blood - All of it".

60 posted on 06/05/2015 7:36:31 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (B.L.O.A.T. : Buy Lots Of Ammo Today)
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