{"id":17247,"date":"2018-05-20T16:28:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T23:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=17247"},"modified":"2018-05-20T16:28:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T23:28:43","slug":"le-guin-on-writing-about-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2018\/05\/20\/le-guin-on-writing-about-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Guin on writing about men"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>From Le Guin\u2019s \u201cIntroduction to <cite>Planet of Exile<\/cite>\u201d (intro written in 1977 or 1978; can now be found in <cite>The Language of the Night<\/cite>). Worth reading the whole piece, but here\u2019s a bit of it:\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\r\n<p><cite>Planet of Exile<\/cite> was written in 1963\u20131964[\u2026]. The book exhibits my early, \u201cnatural\u201d (i.e., happily acculturated), unawakened, un-consciousness-raised way of handling male and female characters. At that time, I could say with a perfectly clear conscience, indeed with self-congratulation, that I simply didn\u2019t care whether my characters were male or female, so long as they were human.<\/p>\r\n<p>[\u2026] it\u2019s ever so much easier to write about men doing things, because most books about people doing things are about men[\u2026].<\/p>\r\n<p>[\u2026] All too often we have found that we had no opinion or belief of our own, but had simply incorporated the dogmas of our society; and so we must discover, invent, make our own truths, our values, ourselves.<\/p>\r\n<p>[\u2026] I use the tools of feminism, and try to figure out what makes me work and how I work, so that I will no longer work in ignorance or irresponsibly.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commonplace-book","category-improving-society","category-writers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17248,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247\/revisions\/17248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}