editorial sexism

[realthog]

Among many great ones, there are some abominably stupid editors out there (I just hope too many people don’t too often regard me as one of the latter), but the experience related here by writer Bev Vincent must surely take the biscuit. It seems the editor concerned has a peculiarly ignorant, myopic and dimwittedly simplistic take on the range of human behaviour and is busily stamping it -- or attempting to stamp it -- on the rest of the world.

All power to Bev Vincent's elbow for refusing to allow such crap.

[[48-page thoggish rant omitted]]

Thanks to cussedness for posting the link I followed.

Comments

[thisplacehere.livejournal.com]

That is one of the most stupidly myopic and presumptious things I've read in quite some time.

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

“Most men don’t think deeply about the dewy greenness of nature.”

Let's not speak of Walt Whitman or Thoreau in the U.S. for instance, or in the UK, oh, say, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Scott, D.H. Lawrence, the P.D. James character, Inspector and poet, Adam Dalgliesh -- ooops, he's created by a girl author.

How is such an idiot an editor?

[pds-lit.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, an editor from planet Stupid. My guess is under 30, arrogant and doesn't know it head from from the end of where its brains are.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

“And I can’t think of many guys from [setting] who call home every Sunday afternoon to talk to their family”

As a divorced father who does just that (and still do even though my sons are in their twenties), I'm gobsmacked.

I wonder what the editor in question would have made of Evelyn Waugh, or of my teacher Tracy Strong?

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Oh, good grief.