Wolfe: Misogynist? and accessibility

Jeff Wilson · 20 Oct 2006, 04:39 · from 2006-October.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:39:13 -0500
Subject: (urth) Wolfe: Misogynist? and accessibility
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Stanislaus wrote:
> Hello Jeff,
> 
> Thursday, October 19, 2006, 7:02:46 AM, you wrote:
> 
>> Jack Redelfs wrote:
>>> I just don't see how we can neatly say that a
>>> chivalrous author will refuse to put his female
>>> characters in harms way. That's like saying only
>>> an anti-semite would write novels about Auschwitz,
>>> isn't it?
> 
>> If an author complusively wrote novels about Jews being tortured and 
>> killed, I'd at least suspect him of anti-semitism.
> 
> There is a technical term for this kind of criticism = "the poetic of a
> police informer."
> 
> I don't think the aim of reading books is to find some crime to accuse
> author of.

No, it's not, but I'd be a pretty superficial reader if I never wondered 
why an author writes what he writes.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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