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ear Because every time I tried to get through a magazine, I would come across stories that I didn't enjoy or that I actively hated or that offended me so much I rage-quit the issue. Go through enough of that, and you start to resist the idea of reading at all. Then I thought: What if I only read stories by a certain type of author? Instead of reading everything, I would only look at stories by women or people of color or LGBT writers. Essentially: no straight, cis, white males. Cutting that one demographic out of my reading list greatly improved my enjoyment of reading short stories. That's not to say I didn't come across bad stories or offensive stuff in stories or other things that turned me off. I did. But I came across this stuff far less than I did previously. http://www.xojane.com/entertainment/reading-challenge-stop-reading-white-straight-cis-male-authors-for-one-year So how about it goons? Are you up for the challenge?
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this may be a problem considering i have a Brit Lit course this semester
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I rarely care about the author at all. If a story's good, its good.
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suck my balls
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following the advice of the op, i didn't read the op
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Well it's not like the type of people who would actually do this are going to get any dumber
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i cant think of one female author
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www posted:i cant think of one female author
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I didn't read anything not found on the internet for the last year, I succeeded already!
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op thanks for a brave post
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Oh, get hosed.
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how much would this bitch be literally shaking if someone told her to only read white straight cis male authors for one year
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Eat poo poo Victor Hugo
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do you think the author of that piece considers themselves close-minded or open-minded?
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Stephen King's still cool though, right?
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it's extremely good that leftists now campaign for total societal segregation on grounds of race and sexuality
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I like the idea of improving your life by completely excluding a group based on skin color, gender, and/or sexual orientation
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i will improve my life by not reading your posts
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I never read cis authors. Ever.
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i challenge you to stop reading tumblr
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symbolic posted:rachel ray I had to put my sandwich down to give this a good laugh. Nice one!
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Maoist Pussy posted:I never read cis authors. Ever. i only read them in trans-lation!!! lmbo
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Someone please repost the first picture in that article because I'm phone posting at work but everyone should see this
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Aralan posted:Someone please repost the first picture in that article because I'm phone posting at work but everyone should see this ![]() haha just noticed the dr. who shirt ofc
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Like, I'm just gonna through the absurd qualifier "cis" in here, since nobody will ever actually have to try to only read cross-dressing authors
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only the gays could write such wonderful stories there are no straight authors
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Lucky Guy posted:following the advice of the op, i didn't read the op I'm actually an inuit female. Check your privilege.
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Compromise: I'll read some oscar wilde.
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Gobblecoque posted:
Quick, into the Retardis!
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but how many of those white, straight, cis male authors were closeted gay, transgender or biracial because it was illegal to be those things in the past and/or came with with severe social repercussions. poo poo, even women authors used male pen names in the past.
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If you're the kind of person that wears TARDIS shirts and reads Neil Gaiman you're never gonna be relevant in the literary world so feel free to do whatever reading challenges you want.
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Gobblecoque posted:
Dr. Who loving cares
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i genuinely care about equality with gays and womens rights but im not going to pretend that in my entire collection of books there is a single female author because it just wouldn't be true i lied, sigrid undset is right between 40 cis males and on the other side 40 cis males but those bloggers would get mad that she was straight and white i guess
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I haven't read a book in over a year. Where's MY parade?
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Simstim posted:but how many of those white, straight, cis male authors were closeted gay, transgender or biracial because it was illegal to be those things in the past and/or came with with severe social repercussions. poo poo, even women authors used male pen names in the past. Jokes on her, I'll just read this George Eliot novel......UHWHAAAAAAAAAT?
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list of gay white male writers: somerset maugham oscar wilde eveyln waugh w.h. auden noel coward e.m. forster d.h. lawrence almost every other important oxbridge english (as in the country not the language) author all war is class war
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Call me Cismale* *Ishmael is actually gay as hell
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I don't think this works, anyway. I have quite a lot of black/female authors in my collection and I doubt anyone from xojane would accuse me of being a nice person.
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ArmZ posted:list of gay white male writers: Tom Clancy
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