Also count me in on Team Do I Really Want To Be A Published Writer.
The #OwnVoices movement has great intentions (to my understanding), but I hate how you essentially need to provide a resume of Shit You've Suffered Through to prove you're "qualified" to write that thing. Or on the flip side, just because I'm not able-bodied doesn't mean I want to write about that all the fucking time. It's exhausting to live with, let alone write about it.
Also, speaking of things men do and get away with, did you see the story a while back about some guy who added actual ingredients from Breath of the Wild into his story? It looked like he barely did a basic Google search and pulled some of the first responses. That's amusing and everything, but it's also infuriating A) that he apparently just laughed it off, as did most people on Twitter and B) knowing this would be a very different scenario if a woman did this.
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Date: 2020-09-04 06:49 pm (UTC)The #OwnVoices movement has great intentions (to my understanding), but I hate how you essentially need to provide a resume of Shit You've Suffered Through to prove you're "qualified" to write that thing. Or on the flip side, just because I'm not able-bodied doesn't mean I want to write about that all the fucking time. It's exhausting to live with, let alone write about it.
Also, speaking of things men do and get away with, did you see the story a while back about some guy who added actual ingredients from Breath of the Wild into his story? It looked like he barely did a basic Google search and pulled some of the first responses. That's amusing and everything, but it's also infuriating A) that he apparently just laughed it off, as did most people on Twitter and B) knowing this would be a very different scenario if a woman did this.