First off, a heads-up: Liz and Deirdre Counihan did sterling work with small press magazine Scheherazade in publishing stories by older women writers. D actually went physically in search of one woman, whom I will not name because she chose to disappear (not just from the writing scene).
It is noticeable that some of the more self-congratulatory male allies support the younger, shoutier-but-not-really-threatening women; one might speculate as to why this is so but one's speculations would not be pretty.
It is also noticeable that some of the younger aspiring women seem keen to throw anyone over 40 under the bus of being insufficiently ideological according to their self-appointed policing. This was ever thus and according to first wave feminism is a function of a patriarchal system.
That's without even getting onto the avowedly sexist men, whom I almost prefer dealing with because at least you don't have to plough through a layer of bullshit before striking the paydirt of sabotage.
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It is noticeable that some of the more self-congratulatory male allies support the younger, shoutier-but-not-really-threatening women; one might speculate as to why this is so but one's speculations would not be pretty.
It is also noticeable that some of the younger aspiring women seem keen to throw anyone over 40 under the bus of being insufficiently ideological according to their self-appointed policing. This was ever thus and according to first wave feminism is a function of a patriarchal system.
That's without even getting onto the avowedly sexist men, whom I almost prefer dealing with because at least you don't have to plough through a layer of bullshit before striking the paydirt of sabotage.