today’s depressing sight on reddit: a woman being downvoted into oblivion for saying that there is, contrary to what the other posters claim, a vast array of books authored by women prior to 1950 and that, in fact, at one point in time in Western Europe, the novel was seen as an emasculating form and thus avoided by men.
how_to_suppress_womens_writing.txt
Had I expected this to get more than two notes, I would have linked a pdf of How To Suppress Women’s Writing by Joanna Russ instead of working under the assumption you all would know what I’m referencing, so here’s the text, belatedly.
I know I shouldn’t be surprised at anything on Reddit, but I’m sort
of amazed the cut-off date is nineteen-freakin’-fifty.
Apparently not only do Fanny Burney, Jane Austen, the Brontes, Mary Shelley,
etc. not exist in their world, neither do L. M. Montgomery, Agatha Christie, Dorothy
L. Sayers, the Baroness Orczy, Marjorie Allingham, Margaret Mitchell,
oh, huh, not even Ayn Rand.
Mooncustafer 