A Culture of Offense

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Do Feminists like the Brontë sisters?

If you would cut out this image



and place it over whatever book you happen to be reading, then people would consider you to be politically correct and leave you alone.

Kipling could have done women characters. All he needed to do is see the move: As Good as It Gets which is about a male author who does women characters How does he succeed so well? Here is the answer right from the movie:

In the movie, “As good as it gets”, Jack Nicholson, who plays a writer in the movie, is just leaving the publisher. The young female receptionist asks Nicholson a question.
Receptionist:

“How do you write women so well?”

Nicholson:

“I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.”

ruveyn

I believe that however a book was written, if the beliefs were appropriate for the time leave them in. I even think it's okay to call someone a "n****r" or "f****t" in a book today - characterization! If someone uses those terms cruelly in real life, that's their right - but it's also everyone else's right to speak out against it, correct them (in the case of dalse statements like "All f****ts rape children," "N****rs always use Welfare and don't work," etc.) or boycott them.

If troll =one that loves to instigate intense debates and likes to prepare for them, then "troll" is a compliment. Socrates called himself a gadfly. * Not bad company to be associated with!
* I am assuming that Plato was not putting words into Socrates mouth.

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I've had the title of troll bestowed upon me here by a few people and I consider it a compliment given who they are.