Random Nano thoughts
or 'I'm a boy I'm a boy I'm a boy I wish I was dead I'm a boy.'
You know how people, OK, male writers, say 'how do you write convincing female characters'? How the hell do you write convincing male characters ( Read more... )
You know how people, OK, male writers, say 'how do you write convincing female characters'? How the hell do you write convincing male characters ( Read more... )
I do know I can think of relatively few male writers who can ventriloquise the feminine effectively; not being male, i can't speak for vice versa, but it wouldn't surprise me if the proportion was higher...
‘…Femininity and bisexuality go together in a combination that varies according to the individual, spreading the intensity of its force differently and (depending on the moments of their history) privileging one component or another. It is much harder for man to let the other come through him. Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling-place of the other in me - the other that I am and am not, that I don’t know how to be, but that I feel passing, that makes me live - that tears me apart, disturbs me, changes me, who? - a feminine one, a masculine one, some? - several, some unknown, which is indeed what gives me the desire to know and from which all life soars. This peopling gives neither rest nor security, always disturbs the relationship to 'reality', produces an uncertaiunty that gets in the way of the subject's socialisation. It is distressing, it wears you out, and for men this permeability, this nonexclusion is a threat, something intolerable….’
Hmm...
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