http://www.xojane.com/entertainment/why-i-stopped-reading-books-by-privileged-white-men
Thoughts?
>>8204342
I think I'm not in the mood to impotently rage against people on the internet.
dumb.
that was easy, next please.
i think it's good to read widely, but purposely cutting out large swathes of quality literature is silly
>>8204358
>>8204342
As soon as there are any good writers who aren't privileged white men, I'll start reading them.
>>8204358
>read widely
It seems you have no fucking clue what you're talking about. Reading "widely" doesn't necessarily mean reading all different races, it's reading different ideas, which you find reading the canon dominated by "privileged white men". Don't give me your bullshit perspectivist arguments either, stop putting people in boxes, you'll be happier.
>>8204381
>stop putting people in boxes, you'll be happier
Unironically mein gott.
>>8204342
That sure is a rehash of last year's clickbait
>>8204391
This kind of bait's been in use for several years now since 2011-12 if not earlier.
>>8204342
I've been boycotting non male authors ever since they made me read Ethan Frome in high school.
I will never forgive women for that.
All women must be punished.
>>8204381
man you're pretty stupid to misunderstand a statement as simple as that guy's.
maybe spend less time being an angry retard and more time reading
>>8204342
I'm boycotting privileged white girl blogs, did not read.
>The fact that my university had a full-year literature course on Shakespeare, but not one on Collette, Toni Morrison, The Brontes, Maya Angelou, Jane Austen, Truman Capote, or Gabriel Garcia Marquez, still pisses me off.
>>8205008
whoever wrote that article has zero understanding of literature.
xojane is a shithole in general.
>>8204355
boy, i bet you feel really clever after that
>>8204342
I mute women in media because my attention is only for the women I fuck, so I understand the concept but why would anyone prefer distortion over honesty.
>>8204533
>>8204381
>reading different ideas
Yes, and there are some ideas on which people who aren't white men write better, more interesting things. Take some deep breaths and stop sperging out.
sometimes I can't tell if these clickbait articles are written by genuine feminists or by one of you guys playing tranny and pretending to be a feminist to make feminists look stupid
this article is one of those times
Being open-minded and actively seeking out the perspective of all kind of different people is never a bad thing.
Nothing wrong with reading widely. Quite honorable, rather.
>>8205543
that implies someone looked out for non-white book to recommend. Too much work for a troll, at least for me
>Not reading privileged white men
Who does this remove, exactly? My first thought was that the vast majority of philosophy and everything written before 1750 has to go. But was Plato white? Was he privileged: he was a member of the Athenian aristocracy but was almost sold into slavery at one point for fucking around with Dion in Syracuse.
Aristotle had to flee Athens. Most of the guys from the Enlightenment wrote under adversity (Spinoza was excommunicated, Hobbes' books were burned, etc.) Does this count as privilege?
Maybe, in the end, excluding "privileged white men" means just skipping the Jonathan Safran Foers of the world. Maybe we should all stop reading "privileged white men."
>>8205626
>reading widely
It seems you have no fucking clue what you're talking about. Reading "widely" doesn't necessarily mean reading all different races, it's reading different ideas, which you find reading the canon dominated by "privileged white men". Don't give me your bullshit perspectivist arguments either, stop putting people in boxes, you'll be merrier.
>>8204342
I have become so disassociated with the world lately that I cannot even get angry by reflex. These people are just like surreal nightmares now.
We all know these people and most women, more so then men haven't even read anything outside of their readings forced on them for college.
And what they do read on their own time is female lit, YA lit, and then the real loopy tumblr ones read genderqueer books, "feminism" books etc.
You can't even consider yourself a reader if you're not reading vigorously outside of a college classroom. When people name drop like the lady in ops post does colored authors they say oh i read when things fall apart.
Kek they wouldn't even read a black male if he wasn't strictly upholding african values in someway or writing a story about slavery.
>>8205626
Reading widely is fine and good. Censoring the books of people based purely on being white and male is fucked up SJW shit. I would feel the same if some stormfag said he doesn't read books by non-whites.
>Colette
She actually wanted a year long college class on Colette? Jesus. I mean, I love Colette, I'm all for porn and pedo courses, but a year long Colette course? For undergrads? How does she think that will go, besides rape and syphilis outbreaks?
If I asked a person if she's read Leo Tolstoy and she said "I appreciate the beauty of Anna Karenina, but I don't read Tolstoy because I don't read books by privileged white males" she would immediately become a nonentity to me and literally disappear from view. I don't even know how to respond to that.
>are Russians even white?
>In case you're not familiar with it, Heart of Darkness is a horrifically racist novel about travelling through what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the time of Belgian colonialism. In this text, Conrad likens the indigenous population to dogs, and routinely refers to them as "savage." I got its shitty message about white male superiority the first time, and I'm pretty sure I didn't need to be exposed to it again.
>>8206157
>reads Heart of Darkness twice in an academic setting
>misses the point both times
I'm a black STEM student and read it in my bedroom and could tell it was literally the opposite of "white superiority"
>I was assigned Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe's masterpiece about Okonkwo, a local Nigerian wrestling champion
Didn't think I'd ever hear it described this way.
>>8206157
sjws deliberately misread everything
>>8204474
>This kind of bait's been in use for several years now since 2011-12 if not earlier.
I've been boycotting women authors for over two years now, I started boycotting them in response to one of those "not reading books by white males for one year" clickbait feminist articles by some she ape. Then I came across another clickbait article by a different leg beard so I extended the boycott for a second year.
I kept waiting to miss having books by females in my life but it never happened. I don't miss them at all. There are so many different books by male authors that at the rate I read (25-30 books per year) I could never hope to read all of the great books that men have written.
So, I encourage all of you, cut women authors out of your lives. You won't miss them. You will still have plenty to read. And it's not like they were particularly nice people anyway. They've been toxic and full of resentment pretty much ever since they picked up a pen.
>>8206370
>>8205727
Gaddis.
>>8206157
gentle reminder that this person, who has a sub high school reading comprehension level, doubtlessly graduated college and probably got good grades as well.
>>8204342
Didn't read, won't read. None.
>>8206370
>he boycotts female authors because of a clickbait feminist article
It's not your political opinions I disagree against, it's your personality. What were you thinking?
>>8206151
>IF I talked to woman
>>are Russians even white?
The literary white people circlejerk here would certainly claim them.
>>8204348
Then why are you on fourth channel
>>8204342
10/10 pup VERY nice thank you for posting it
>>8207289
Russians have a lot of great writers but I would still be upset if Russians moved into my neighborhood
Samedral with Irish.
>>8208681
*same deal with Irish
>>8207273
War is hell
>>8207273
>What were you thinking?
Think of a boycott as a form of economic warfare. I'm a bit like the US in December of 1941. I hadnt really done much of anything when some she ape calls for a boycott of white males, totally unprovoked. It's fucking Pearl Harbor all over again. You boycott me, I boycott you. It's war.
After a while, I realize, I'm not really sacrificing anything in this war. I don't miss women authors. I enjoy not having their toxic feminism and 'muh victimhood' narratives in my life. So I keep on going with my war. It isn't even about justice or even revenge anymore. At this point, it's just a pleasure.
I'm just so much happier without them.
Male readers need women writers like bicycles need fish.
>>8206188
>>8205008
The only ones in that group that make sense for a full-year course are Jane Austen and The Brontes, and those courses do exist at many universities.
How the fuck would you have such a class on Capote, who wasn't exactly prolific or even substantive.
>>8204381
Wow how amazing, and interesting too
>>8204369
This is the real problem. There's very few authors that are worth reading that aren't straight white men.
>>8209331
>It's fucking Pearl Harbor all over again
She has fat fingers. Face is kinda cute though.
she's an idiot because clearly she thinks shakespeare was "privileged" rather than the poor as shit bohemian he actually was, like most artists.
like you have any idea what the authors personal perception is at all. your just using an idealistic perception to ignore others ideas. hypocrite.
Why does people feel the need to give the slightest fuck about who writes what thing? The books should always be valued for what they say and how they say it, and nothing else.
>Sarah Sahagian is a professional feminist based in Toronto. She is currently a PhD candidate in gender, feminist and women's studies at York University, where she is completing her dissertation on the mothering of inter-ethnic children.
ROFL
>calls Heart of Darkness horrifically racist
I had to stop there, wew
>>8210935
You are arguing with feminism, pretty much the progenitor of modern identity politics. Of course they care about "who" more than "what."
>>8204517
Don Gately stands with you, brother.
>>8211131
>professional feminist
Sweet mother of Christ.
