Finally! A story!

[oneiriad]

And I'll need to edit and post it, and that'll be tomorrow - right now I just want to lean back and bask in the feeling of having actually written the bloody thing (Why is writing so very similar to pulling out teeth sometimes? And why can't I stop anyway? Or at least stop procrastinating...)

Speaking of writing, I was reading the news at DR's website and followed a link to a story about women writers gaining on the men - as in, how more women become writers. It talked about how men still dominate both as writers and as researchers, reviewers, etc. (in Denmark, I assume), but women are growing more numerous, and it talked about online writing communities, and it was all good.

And then it went and twisted it into how all those women writers would be a bad thing, because won't somebody think of the children poor young males, who won't have any books appealing to them to read, and consequently will not be dragged away from the abyss of no-education-career-or-future towards which many of them are headed, and I just - seriously? Why are the media so enamored by that narrative? The poor, little men, who can't get an education because of all those mean women in the education sector narrative? I just - what do they have to whine about, other than a free education system open for anyone who cares to make the effort (because there's no longer any teachers of the lektor Blomme generation to whip lessons into students, whether they want them or not)? Do they even realize how they come across?

Comments

[lysanatt]

Yeah, funny that, how nobody cared about the women the previous thousands of years who couldn't get education or write books. Or the women in other countries who don't yet have the opportunity.

But of course. The poor boys without drive, brains or ambitions... they must come before the talented women who needs to step down a notch. Of course. Yes.

Fuck that.

[oneiriad]

The really annoying thing is that I agree with the morons as far as that it's a problem - a large percentage of a generation is basically not getting any sort of education, of course that's a problem, all gender issues aside, that's a fucking waste of an invaluable ressource. It's just...

Listen, I don't actually agree with all those binary gender things this entire narrative is built around and I think it's making the problem worse rather than helping to solve it - that's said, what annoys me the most? Dear sir, if you feel the school system has too many female teachers and are only instilling female values in your precious baby boys, why didn't you become a teacher? Or - in this case - dear sir, if you feel there's a lack of suitable young adult fiction directed at males (which I don't think there is, but that's not relevant for this argument), why don't you write a book? Instead of whining about women doing better than men, why don't you do something about it? Who's stopping you?

[lysanatt]

"Instead of whining about women doing better than men, why don't you do something about it? "

Heh, because it's so much easier to complain than to do anything about it.

And I agree with the binary. Problem is that it's how the world functions and that few actually get it if that's brought into the equation. Not that people are stupid, far from, it's just not something that the standard heteronormative person cares about. (Oh, the entitlement...) It saddens me to no end, also because this shit is a dismissal of anything that isn't precisely white male heteronormativity. I really hope that men aren't actually aware how offensive they are when they dismiss values that do not belong in that segment.

What annoys me the most is that feminine values seem to be something that needs to be strictly avoided and A Bad Thing. Funny that, seeing that half the (binary) world has or are forced into them.

Yeah, bloody waste, but still we're talking about individuals, gender aside, who don't have talent or energy for higher education and that worries me, too. I don't like that jobs for people who don't have the urge to study are becoming so rare.

[blnchflr]

Back in the day women weren't considered suited for education - our poor little brains couldn't handle it. Maybe if too many boys weren't allowed to run free and not do their homework (cf. e.g. my nephew), they'd do better.

[oneiriad]

Back in the day women weren't considered suited for education - our poor little brains couldn't handle it
Sometimes, I suspect real life of being enamored with dramatic irony...

[blnchflr]

Such irony, right?!