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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Norman Mailer's View of Women Writers

What is his view? 


What are his prejudices and stereotypes? Do you agree with any of his ideas? What ideas do you disagree with?


"...I do not seem able to read them. Indeed I doubt if there will be a really exciting woman writer until the first whore becomes a call girl and tells her tale. At the risk of making a dozen devoted enemies for life, I can only say that the sniffs I get from the ink of the women are always fey, old-hat, Quaintsy Goysy, tiny, too dykily psychotic, crippled, creepish, fashionable, frigid, outer-Baroque, maquille in mannequin’s whimsy, or else bright and stillborn....


First of all I disagree with all of his judgement on woman. His views towards woman are very strong and stereotypical to woman. I can find it very insulting, but yet again till this I don't know or think that he even read a woman's book before his death. He really has no right to say such horrible discriminatory words to woman. I don't know, but maybe when he wrote this he may of thought that it was bringing woman's strength to try and go on dow. The truth is that woman have suffered to much and they were not going to stop writing, just because a man that hadn't even read any woman's books. All he was doing was giving them all the strength to prove him and the many other judgmental men that they did and still do have had talent, also.

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