University of Toronto professor David Gilmour has, not shockingly, stirred up controversy by stating in an interview that he is “not interested in teaching books by women.” And, “I don’t love women writers enough to teach them, if you want women writers go down the hall.” And, just in case that wasn’t clear, “What I teach is guys. Serious heterosexual guys … F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chekhov, Tolstoy. Real guy-guys.”
There’s something profoundly wrong with academia if it’s willing to model young minds after such chauvinistic pricks.
For some “women writers” without whom literary history wouldn’t be the same, go here. Also see Margaret Atwood on literature’s “women problem.”
(via explore-blog)“There’s something profoundly wrong with academia if it’s willing to model young minds after such chauvinistic pricks.”