Padlocking the lovely unsullied mind

[oursin]

Further to my snark yesterday I have realised that the article in question manifests a phenomenon (or two related phenomena) which were in play in a couple of my other posts towards the end of last week.

One is the designation of a group which will be the manifestation of certain qualities that we, the privileged and the ones with cultural power,

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[fallingtowers]

Though when a man (HAI! M Flaubert) writes a woman-centred novel focussing on female experience, it is Searing Indictment of Society: when women do this it is (but of course) Mills&Boon/chick-lit/Aga-saga.

If I had received ten cents for every time that someone told me during my EngLit degree years that Jane Austen was only about gossip and the Brontës only about romance, I wouldn't have needed to apply for a corporate job afterwards. I could be retiring on the interest from the capital sum right now.