The winner of the 2001 Nobel prize for literature is a total sexist douchebag.
In an interview at the Royal Geographic Society, he recently said that no woman writer was his literary match, and that Jane Austen was way too sentimental a writer for him, a man, to appreciate.
He's also a pompous ass, and thinks he can tell from the writing whether the author is a man or a woman based on how "good" it is.
"I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not. I think [it is] unequal to me."
According to him, women have "the narrow view of the world... and inevitably for a woman, she is not a complete master of a house, so that comes over in her writing too."
Yeah, It sucks how I am not "the master of my house." I mean,...
In an interview at the Royal Geographic Society, he recently said that no woman writer was his literary match, and that Jane Austen was way too sentimental a writer for him, a man, to appreciate.
He's also a pompous ass, and thinks he can tell from the writing whether the author is a man or a woman based on how "good" it is.
"I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not. I think [it is] unequal to me."
According to him, women have "the narrow view of the world... and inevitably for a woman, she is not a complete master of a house, so that comes over in her writing too."
Yeah, It sucks how I am not "the master of my house." I mean,...
- 6/3/2011
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
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