RS, Author, Novelist on Nostr: What interests a gender fiction writer more than gender politics? Excuse #uspol ...
What interests a gender fiction writer more than gender politics? Excuse #uspol adjacent stuff, but the New Yorker newsletter (thus no paywall) article is, well, interesting? Not going to state if it is reacting or perfect, or far from it. That's for the reader to decide.
Teaser:
The gender war, as pitched by politicians, revolves around two competing visions of a woman’s life. Each side thinks it understands what the other wants. The Trumpists—embodied by J. D. Vance and his repulsive, sneering childless-cat-lady comments, by Tucker Carlson and his portrayal of Kamala Harris as a “Samoan Malaysian, low-I.Q.” diversity hire—believe that the left wants women to be Plan B-gobbling dilettantes in their youth; dick-stomping corporate drones in early adulthood; lonely, angry spinsters who approach forty in a mania for egg-freezing or emasculation. (Soon afterward, the woman problem becomes neutralized by the relative invisibility of the “postmenopausal female.”) The libs believe that conservatives want women to spend their youth in training to attract, submit to, and please men, suppressing all other forms of human potential for one that revolves around dress-up, smiling self-imprisonment, and wiping asses, both literally and emotionally.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/dispatches/how-america-embraced-gender-war
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Teaser:
The gender war, as pitched by politicians, revolves around two competing visions of a woman’s life. Each side thinks it understands what the other wants. The Trumpists—embodied by J. D. Vance and his repulsive, sneering childless-cat-lady comments, by Tucker Carlson and his portrayal of Kamala Harris as a “Samoan Malaysian, low-I.Q.” diversity hire—believe that the left wants women to be Plan B-gobbling dilettantes in their youth; dick-stomping corporate drones in early adulthood; lonely, angry spinsters who approach forty in a mania for egg-freezing or emasculation. (Soon afterward, the woman problem becomes neutralized by the relative invisibility of the “postmenopausal female.”) The libs believe that conservatives want women to spend their youth in training to attract, submit to, and please men, suppressing all other forms of human potential for one that revolves around dress-up, smiling self-imprisonment, and wiping asses, both literally and emotionally.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/dispatches/how-america-embraced-gender-war
#EngenderedWriting #gender #writingCommunity #writersOfMastodon #author