She only had old, white, male profs? Which University is this?

She is what courage looks like.

"She is what courage looks like."

(I was reminded how much it bites to have coffee fly our your nose with laughter.)

Of all the examples today: Aleppo, Ukraine, Sana'a – you say the outlandishly naive. "She is what courage looks like."

@1, 3, & 4: Predictable troll responses. Try harder.

@2- I went to a fancy pants liberal arts college in the 90s and the majority of my professors were older, white, and male professors. The gender balance was evening out a bit, but female professors weren't getting tenure as often as males for some reason. Now that I think about it the literature and writing departments were particularly white and male. My major (history) was more diverse. Fine Arts may have actually been majority female in professorship. So what I'm saying is that I find it very believable that one could have older white male professors for one's MFA.

White Female Writer May Need To Check Her Privilege, Says White Male Writer

These culture warrior types obsessing about micro-aggressions almost always seem awfully neurotic and unhappy.

Poor White Privileged Baby. If you don't like it because you can't write what you want, too bad. When you submit "works" for publication. You give up your first amendment rights. It's the publisher who can say what they want with your words. Thats if you sell to them....the Old White Dudes.

When you're a "writer", you depend on someone else. That someone will have control. If you don'y like it, get another job. Or, self publish.

Criticizing the very industry you want to be a part of helps your cause a whole lot.

@1 Fuck you
@2 fuck you
@3 fuck you
@4 fuck you
@5 fuck you
@6 you're cool
@7 fuck you
I'm out. Fuck it. If the editors don't care about having a readable site, I wont read it.

In this brave new world we've created, you ain't shit if you ain't a victim.

Old White Guys are a fantastic group to pander to, they have a lot of the money and control most nations on earth.

Oh and I know what the fuck is really going on: you yahoos have vag envy because your privileged whines in print got a rejection slip, didn't they?

Or a pile of rehection slips.

Oh well fellas, can always throw up your self published screeds asan ebook on Amazon, where you'll climb to 350,432th in rank.

Or write comments on Slog.

@7, 9, 10, 12, 13.... So sadly predictable and dumb.

@11- Thanks. But really I'm an asshole in a lot of ways.

@14- You don't need my approval, but you've got it.

Aren't there more female readers than male in the fiction market? I'm not saying her perceptions don't have their reasons, but they may not be based on where the money is.

@16 those rehection slips really are the worst.

Vag envy!

Oh good. More "Theatre of the Victim". I love this stuff.

The social justice idiots killed art by ostracizing everyone who isn't a socialist, then dumbed us all down by lowering school standards and turning colleges into protest LARP zones for self-styled victims.

Now they're upset because a few of the old white guys in publishing aren't pushing their Vagina Memoirs on an uninterested populace? The hard truth is, many women who could RELATE THE MOST to stories of motherhood are too busy BEING MOTHERS instead of finding reasons to "burn the motherfucker down" or waste time on some poorly written white guilt boilerplate on the NYT bestseller list.

@14

Oh god. Just stop already. I will make you a deal:

All of us "misogynists" will just move to the tent city favelas and commit slow suicide with heroin and untreated infections, if you just stop with the endless barrage of pozzed-out magazine and tv dreck. We give up.

You can have what's left of the road crews, the construction industry, the police, the military, the farms, the Church, etc. It's all yours.

Oh, and comedy. You can have that one. Good luck!

You might have trouble getting anything fixed on time, or have anyone left to pay the taxes to fund hipster abortions, or watch your vapid tv shows that you wrote.

See, we're stuck sitting next to you ladies through all this. And the bulk of this hipster guilt culture is really boring, unfunny, and worst of all, rather expensive.

And we'll never have to put the toilet seat down again!

That's a cliche you missed

wew lad

Slog feels like reading a script of the same soap opera episode over and over again.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that white, upper middle class hipster chicks from California are oppressed.

To the butt hurt gentlemen of this thread:
My deepest condolences for your ruffled feathers. That you can rise from your bed of pain and find the strength, (after being dealt such a blow by this woman!) to come here and school us in the defense of the Writen Word, ( and well, all of Western Culture really, I suppose) is a testament to your courage to speak truth to power. Kudos to you gentlemen. Kudos. Your struggle is real!

"Written Word"
Wouldn't want yelahneb to ding me for a typo.