"Bloody hell, Shakespeare wrote believable women, and, for that matter, I have no trouble with, say, Ursula Le Guin's men."
To be fair, I don't think the editor's saying people can't write their opposite gender. Rather, the editor's crime is (a) having an incredibly simplistic, halfwitted view of gender differences and (b) attempting aggressively to impose that view on others.
The fact that Bev Vincent is in fact male merely serves to spotlight the editor's folly; but the folly itself is the editor's assumption that all males are jockrot-scratching insensitive dumbbells-on-legs ("walking dildoes", in Valerie Solanas's immortal phrase), and the insistence that others accept this illusion.
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Date: 2009-07-19 03:40 am (UTC)"Bloody hell, Shakespeare wrote believable women, and, for that matter, I have no trouble with, say, Ursula Le Guin's men."
To be fair, I don't think the editor's saying people can't write their opposite gender. Rather, the editor's crime is (a) having an incredibly simplistic, halfwitted view of gender differences and (b) attempting aggressively to impose that view on others.
The fact that Bev Vincent is in fact male merely serves to spotlight the editor's folly; but the folly itself is the editor's assumption that all males are jockrot-scratching insensitive dumbbells-on-legs ("walking dildoes", in Valerie Solanas's immortal phrase), and the insistence that others accept this illusion.