Finally! A story!

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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?