(urth) 'King Rat' and the abuse of women in Gene Wolfe's stories

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes danldo at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 09:06:07 PST 2011


Okay, you don't write any of that. But are all your characters exactly
like you? That's the logical consequence of not writing what you don't
have "direct, subjective experience of."

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't write aliens or elves or dwarves or any of that.
>
> Although it does raise some questions. Is there a universal male or female experience across different species or worlds?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 9, 2011, at 10:58 AM, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Lane Haygood wrote:
>>> I tend to write (almost exclusively) male protagonists and narrators.
>>> Because I am male.  I don't have any direct, subjective experience of being
>>> female.
>>
>> But SF is all about writing the Other. If you can't write a female
>> character, how can you write an alien?
>>
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>> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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