5/29/2023 0 Comments The bluest eye pages![]() ![]() He is only a minuscule part of the universal malady afflicting our collective psyche. ![]() It's not that particular guy I am mad at. In retrospect, when I dwell on the memory of this horrendous, very real conversation, I experience a crushing hopelessness. A wholly unabashed, flat out declaration made with the confident, self-righteous air of a reader who knows what good reading should consist of and, when it comes to that, exclude. Not even a half-hearted attempt at rescuing an uncomfortable situation. I didn't have the heart to ask him why a second time.Īnd there it sat between us, this knowledge of his disdain for women writers (for some hitherto unknown reason), like a breathing, venom-spitting, invisible monster quietly killing our conversation (thankfully!). On prodding him for the reason behind his 'disinterest', he replied that 'books written by women just do not engage' him. Just a few days ago I happened to have a conversation with someone (quite a 'well-read' person too) who said quite casually, almost in an offhand manner, how he found books written by women 'uninteresting'. ![]()
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