Liz wrote:
>And so I just end up quietly doing my work with a kind of warped assumption
that it isn't going to see the light anywhere....... and have to make a
real
effort to force myself out of that trap.<
And so do I, Liz. I don't want to say issues of gender don't come into
things, obviously they can do, viz. McCauley's article, but behind it all is
the primate disease of perceived social status, I wouldn't dare posit
anything as crude as a theory about it, one notices for instance that there
a +lot+ of published women poets in England these days, but they tend +not+
to be people living on run-down council estates in Oldham say, or Blackburn.
The same applies to their male counterparts. To say that is not to ignore
the blatant sexism of people like the abovesaid, all I'm bumblingly
attempting to say is that sexism, of whatever kind, is part of a wider
disease.
Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
Leicester, England
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