You sound like meeeeee, lol. Actually, I agree with literally everything you just said. Every writer I've ever truly admired, save we'll say Harper Lee and a few poets, is male.
I occasionally watch videos by JennaMarbles and I spend most of it going 'well I'm a girl and I don't think or care about any of that stuff. You are an alien.' But I guess that's how most girls are. And it's weird. And tedious. And holds no appeal.
I need to figure out if there are any female writers I've read without being forced to. I mean I enjoyed The Color Purple...but that was for school. And I liked Black Beauty...when I was 8. And...um. What else?
Oh, yes, okay, amending myself, Alice Walker is a genius.
And I feel like there are a lot of talented, provocative female writers who do kid/YA lit--Lois Lowry jumps to mind.
Blargh re: Jenna Marbles and What Girls Care About (TM). I'd write a more coherent comment but I am so feverish and out of it it's a wonder I'm typing.
Yeah, her whole thing is...makeup! Partying! More makeup and partying and also...dogs or something! It's weird. And she's smart, clearly. But I guess I'm assuming she's sort of an example of what *average* females are like. And I...don't get it.
I read some kid's lit by women, I'm sure. But even then my faves were dudes. I did read Wrinkle In Time, but didn't care for it. Still, that's sci fi. So I dunno.
I mean, I'm a girl who has never understood girls (and when my mother rolls her eyes at this, I remind her that she gave me a boy's name, so she made her bed and she can lie in it), but sometimes I get the distinct impression Jenna Marbles is punching feminism in the face and calling it a celebration of womanhood. And normally I cringe at anybody who even uses the word "feminism" in casual conversation (ultra-liberal arts schools will do that to ya), but seriously.
I'm whacking myself on the head because I forgot about Virginia Woolf, one of my all time favorite writers, up above, but the point does stand--she's up there by herself with a whole lot of men, both in terms of the writers I really enjoy/admire and the writers I've devoted a lot of my time--both academic and otherwise--to in the last several years.
I don't know what the hell JM is doing, to me she's just really really weird. I feel like there must be more going on underneath the surface...right? I mean there would have to be.
A lot of my favorite musicians and poets are old men, too. So not only do I tend to read guys, I read guys over 50. I think I require a certain amount of grizzled cynicism in my artists.
Few writers period have had as profound an impact on me as Leonard Cohen did. And I still remember the first time I heard Tom Waits--it was "Heartattack and Vine," and I was fifteen, and my mind was blown.
I like Johnny Cash but I don't love him the way I do Cohen and Waits.
You sound like meeeeee, lol. Actually, I agree with literally everything you just said. Every writer I've ever truly admired, save we'll say Harper Lee and a few poets, is male.
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I occasionally watch videos by JennaMarbles and I spend most of it going 'well I'm a girl and I don't think or care about any of that stuff. You are an alien.' But I guess that's how most girls are. And it's weird. And tedious. And holds no appeal.
I need to figure out if there are any female writers I've read without being forced to. I mean I enjoyed The Color Purple...but that was for school. And I liked Black Beauty...when I was 8. And...um. What else?
*flails*
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And I feel like there are a lot of talented, provocative female writers who do kid/YA lit--Lois Lowry jumps to mind.
Blargh re: Jenna Marbles and What Girls Care About (TM). I'd write a more coherent comment but I am so feverish and out of it it's a wonder I'm typing.
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I read some kid's lit by women, I'm sure. But even then my faves were dudes. I did read Wrinkle In Time, but didn't care for it. Still, that's sci fi. So I dunno.
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I'm whacking myself on the head because I forgot about Virginia Woolf, one of my all time favorite writers, up above, but the point does stand--she's up there by herself with a whole lot of men, both in terms of the writers I really enjoy/admire and the writers I've devoted a lot of my time--both academic and otherwise--to in the last several years.
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A lot of my favorite musicians and poets are old men, too. So not only do I tend to read guys, I read guys over 50. I think I require a certain amount of grizzled cynicism in my artists.
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Right? Like if you've never neglected shaving in favor of day drinking, what right to you have to tell me about the world? :P
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What are your thoughts on Johnny Cash?
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I like Johnny Cash but I don't love him the way I do Cohen and Waits.
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