Sadly you see this mindset being perpetuated and enhanced in things like NaNoWriMo, where you're essentially cast out if you refuse to identify using the correct sequence of letters or have the temerity to write something other than "gender-questioning science fiction or dystopian queer fantasy." It's profoundly depressing to me to see t…
Sadly you see this mindset being perpetuated and enhanced in things like NaNoWriMo, where you're essentially cast out if you refuse to identify using the correct sequence of letters or have the temerity to write something other than "gender-questioning science fiction or dystopian queer fantasy." It's profoundly depressing to me to see the humanities, who over the years have flourished in a climate of tolerance and acceptance, so soundly rejecting those very principles. That they don't appear to comprehend what they're doing only deepens the depression.
Couldn’t agree more, Steve. Writers and those in the humanities are in the business of ideas, and it’s beyond dispiriting (and rather boring) to have entered a phase when the expression of dissenting ideas is verboten. Let’s bring back robust debate rather than ad hominem attacks!
Sadly you see this mindset being perpetuated and enhanced in things like NaNoWriMo, where you're essentially cast out if you refuse to identify using the correct sequence of letters or have the temerity to write something other than "gender-questioning science fiction or dystopian queer fantasy." It's profoundly depressing to me to see the humanities, who over the years have flourished in a climate of tolerance and acceptance, so soundly rejecting those very principles. That they don't appear to comprehend what they're doing only deepens the depression.
Couldn’t agree more, Steve. Writers and those in the humanities are in the business of ideas, and it’s beyond dispiriting (and rather boring) to have entered a phase when the expression of dissenting ideas is verboten. Let’s bring back robust debate rather than ad hominem attacks!