And you know that Franzen wishes he was born 50 years earlier so he could be in his “prime” during a time when the ladies knew to shut up and white men were unquestioned.

Let’s not forget about Martha Gellhorn. She was a war correspondent for 60 years. She was the only woman to land at Normandy on D-Day on June 6, 1944. She was also among the first journalists to report from Dachau concentration camp after it was liberated by Allied Troops.

I think it’s hilarious that you are sad for an 84 year old white man, because his legacy is being tarnished, when the whole point is that women don’t get a legacy at all, and are essentially dead to the world even while they are alive.

It’s a big deal because he’s lying to demean women writers. The excuse he gives about their not wanting to deal with the gritty side of life isn’t true , even Harriet Beecher Stowe did that in the 19th century with slavery and was followed by a long line of writers and journalists such as Frances Fitzgerald on…

Yup, there’s always some excuse so we can’t point out how shitty men are to women. Oh, but he is such a great sports player! Oh, but he writes so well! Oh, he is too young/old to know better!

Suffice it to say that while those guys and their ilk produced lots of compelling and even occasionally brilliant writing, at the same time they will not be missed.

Is it? I thought it was female writers who inspired him. But even so, Gloria Steinem wrote her Playboy piece in 63.

I mean, she is 61, and has been around for decades, mostly writing for the literary magazine The New Yorker, which I’m sure this asshole has heard of. She actually has a new book out about dirty money in politics focusing on the Koch brothers. So if he actually paid attention to his peers without a penis, he would…

and a contemporary of Mailer, Roth, and Hunter Thompson too. amazing, right?

According to her wiki entry, his wife Nan Talese edited and published Margaret Atwood, Antonia Fraser, Valerie Martin (winner of the Orange Prize) and Jennifer Egan (who published short fiction in many of the publications Gay did, received NEA and Guggenheim fellowships, won the Pulitzer and the National Book Critics…

Okay a couple of things:

I also can't name a single female writer that inspires me. I can't name a male writer who inspires we either. I am a sentient hunk of cheese that someone plugged directly into the Internet. I am inspired by mold and bacteria.

Finally I get to share my story publicly in a setting where people WANT to hear it!!! In December 2014, I started having really massive stomach cramps. I thought perhaps I had eaten something bad, or was PMSing, but these cramps were constant. I couldn’t sleep, I stopped being able to eat. I couldn’t stand up…

I’m beginning to think that Clinton has attracted her own cadre of woman-bashing, “BernieBro”-like supporters, and that they may soon be worthy of their own derogatory title.

BigPoppaSmurf. Let’s just consider that my statement is hyperbolic. I did not say there was an apocalypse coming. What I did intimate is that yes, HRC would be a continuation of the current administration and for me as a Progressive that is problematic. We have the TPP looming in the future, and while I support the…

Right? Nothing like 3 strikes laws that says you’re championing POC! Or welfare reform! Or bankruptcy reform!
The only idiotic thing about this narrative is that calling out POC and women who vote for her is somehow sacrocant, because there’s no way any of them could possibly be misinformed about her record.

When Bernie compromises, you get policy that not everyone thinks is awesome but both sides tend to agree on. When Hillary compromises, people’s jobs go overseas, single mothers get kicked off of public assistance and brown people get bombed.

Supported POC in college? You mean, when she worked for Barry Goldwater? Yup, no one more progressive than Goldwater. Shit, like Hilary all you want, but don’t fucking lie about shit.

More of what we currently have.

The original article talked about her being shielded of criticism (esp. In regards to race issues) by virtue of White Feminism, which I think is a fair point that hasn’t had enough discussion. My point in sharing it was not to say her supporters are racist, really.