Boy, You Have To Put Some Effort In

[redbrunja]

Junot Diaz continues to speaking fucking truth about men writing women*.

(BTW, this totally applies to white writers writing characters of color as well.)

Comments

[qualapec.livejournal.com]

It's not even that. It's more like they're just props for his MC's manpain.

And it's the kind of thing I can't really critique him about because it's so ingrained in his idea of storytelling he's just got to figure it out for himself. Someday.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Is he the kind of person you could go, 'you know, you really need to google "women in refrigerators,"' or is it one of those things were you just want to leave well enough alone?

[qualapec.livejournal.com]

Nah, he's the sort of person where if you try to argue with him about it, he'll get defensive and come up with a list of reasons as to why it's perfectly okay.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I've been in situations like that. Sometimes it's not worth the time.