They Don’t

November 20, 2019 Longrider Political, sophistry, Writing & Language 10

Ceri Radford bemoans the need for women only anthologies.

I love women-only anthologies – I just wish they didn’t have to exist

Um… They don’t. Not that I have a problem with them, but it’s just storytelling. Write what you want, read what you want, just don’t make it all intersectional.

Right in time for Christmas shopping, this month sees the publication of She Speaks: The Power of Women’s Voices by Yvette Cooper. A collection of humdinger speeches by women who have changed the course of history – from Boudica to Benazir Bhutto – it’s a wonderful book that I would happily unwrap and spend half of Christmas avoiding the family with. It’s also part of a slow-burning trend for anthologies that champion women’s long marginalised stories, including Wonder Women, A History of Britain in 21 Women and a whole slew of jauntily feminist children’s titles aimed at raising girls who will put down the Play-Doh and lean in.

I think I’ll probably pass on this exciting opportunity.

As a phenomenon, it gives me mixed feelings. To start with the obvious: these books are a much-needed rebuttal to a culture that gives off the ineffable impression that the only woman who did anything of note in the past two millennia was Marie Curie.

Who gave this impression? Really? Who? Evidence to back this up, please. Ah, of course, we are supposed to accept this absurd assertion as-is, unchallenged. Well, no, I don’t accept it. There are a whole bunch of women who did things of note in the past two millennia. I mean, Mrs T was more recent than Marie Curie… Or doesn’t she count?

The whole article is typical of the dreary woke bullshit we have come to expect from the right-on, politically correct progressives without an ounce of imagination in their souls.

I suppose she could always pitch an idea to Leg Iron Books. You never know…

10 Comments

  1. “women’s long marginalised stories” – “by women who have changed the course of history”

    Nah, something doesn’t stack up there…

  2. She Speaks: The Power of Women’s Voices by Yvette Cooper

    Presumably lead Remoaner Yvette is preparing to join her hubby, Ed Balls on the sofa as her life as an MP (hopefully) comes to an end with her being ousted by her mainly Leave voting constituents.

  3. I’ve read a book about Boudica. It was mainly an admission of how little is really known about her. The Romans kept records of course but what little of those that survived don’t tell us very much. Any empowering speech attributed to her is likely to be completely made up.

    If you read the history of the freethought movement that freed all of us from the oppressive influence of religion, you will find a lot of impressive women.

  4. ” I mean, Mrs T was more recent than Marie Curie… Or doesn’t she count?”
    We have it on good authority that she doesn’t. None other than a future Democrat POTUS candidate and her mother. That’s another book I won’t be reading!

    • You can’t have an oppressive patriarchal conspiracy against all women by all men and at the same time believe the women aren’t completely worthless.

      You can believe men and women struggled together throughout history and believe both have something to offer now.

      Female leaders like Thatcher ruin option 1.

  5. I think you’re missing an opportunity here. After all, you’re already a writer and a pen-name is…just a pen name. Why not a semi autobiographical account of your experiences as a black, disabled lesbian, including some rousing rhetoric and maybe a steamy nearly sex session. Play down your oppression; play up your stoic fortitude.

    Garner their praise and gushing respect, secretly awaiting the gleeful day – after a few literary successes – when you’re doxxed as a middle aged white guy.

    [edited: I originally typed “middle ages guy”. You’re not that old, but it’s quite funny]

  6. Whatever the issues likely to trouble Britain under the SNP/ Green/ Corbinite coalition one thing I don’t think we will run short of is Straw Men. One of the most ludicrous articles I have ever read.

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