I've read a couple pieces about the state of women's fiction lately. Nothing revelatory -- it is the same stuff about their books not getting enough respect or review attention or whatever. And that work, I think, has to be done (or maybe it is off-putting and scolding and doesn't actually engage the mind of the male critic because by the time you're done with your second sentence he is off refilling his scotch and thinking dark thoughts about menstrual cycles and their attachment to the emotional expression of the female human), but I don't want to read it anymore.
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