Links

[snowynight]

Cracked.com posted The Five Stupidest Habits You Develop Growing Up Poor. There's so much truth in this for me and I'm still suffering from some of the things it talks about

Being conscious about gender — Malinda Lo on writing passive female characters.

If the Clothes Fit: A Feminist Take on Fashion

Are Women People? — a fascinating piece about a book of suffragette poems the author randomly discovered on Project Gutenberg,

A woman's place — a Sydney Morning Herald piece on literary sexism and the ways we're all socialised to privilege men's writing.

Save Ethnic Studies in Tucson.

SOPA/PIPA followup: OPEN

Comments

[elspethdixon]

I had no idea that mainstream/literary/non-genre fiction reviews and prizes were so weighted toward men. I know genre prizes like the Nebula and Hugo and Edgar Awards are, but not to this jaw-dropping an extant. Maybe because people don't think of fantasy and sci-fi and mysteries as "literary" and "srs bzns" or as being "important books" (which apparently can only be written by guys).

Also, "women are never completely masters of their own homes so blahblah this somehow makes their writing narrower?" What century is this guy living in?

[snowynight]

People can be really stupid when biased.