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2026-04-27 09:34 UTC
@paranoiapen@mas.to Yeah, I wasn't assuming that was what you meant, but I wanted to clarify just in case 😅
As an agender person I struggle with the idea that we aren't, at base, the same as men, but certainly society has forced hugely different experiences on us. There's no need to be the same as men, but I don't think there's one single thing there is to be a man either. The frustrating thing is being denied the opportunity to find out who you would be and what you would write with equal resources>
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@rubyjones@wandering.shop 2026-04-27 09:37
@paranoiapen@mas.to >which is Woolf's point: it would be fruitless to say anything definitive about women who write fiction or women and the fiction they write - if such a question has a single answer, and I don't think it does - because we just haven't had the same opportunities to freely create. The restrictions shape the work. An example she gives is in Jane Eyre, where at one point Jane goes off on one about how trapped and limited she feels because of all the things she cannot do as a woman>