the world has no clue. No. Clue.

[lobelia321]

On Monday, Radio Four (BBC talk radio in Britain) broadcast an interview with two women, one of whom is the new editor of something called 'Erotic Review'. This woman claimed that women cannot write erotica as well as men because they're just not that much into sex.

wtf ???

I feel too tired even to begin unravelling this absurdity. Although one part of me, hehe, grins in glee that the fanfic corner of our universe still seems to be a sekrit little niche. *g*



Link to the absurdity at Reuters
Listen to the absurdity at the BBC website (scroll down to 8:20).

One of these days I might post a few extracts from what passes for 'erotica' or 'porn' as written by men. If I can stop yawning long enough.

Comments

[cupiscent.livejournal.com]

Someone else on my flist linked to this last night. It's really quite flabberghasting. What I said then was: "I faintly allow her point about dilettante amateurs. Sure, boys obsess about sex, more commonly to a degree that women probably don't. But they also obsess about robots, dinosaurs and cars, which doesn't mean they can necessarily write interestingly, intelligently or even coherently about them."

Baffled. As in, I am.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

I HEARD THIS! Oh, how I simultaneously laughed and rolled my eyes. (I nearly posted about it, but am in the midst of a low period, so decided I couldn't be bothered.)

What really got me was that Kathy Lette, who they brought on as the opposition, opposed her by saying, in a nutshell: "Come on now, let us have a go. We might be ok at it!" Because, obviously, it's not as though women have been blithely churning out fantabulous literary sex scenes for decades, is it? Oh no...

*chortle*

Oh yes, and the other thing that made me laugh: the idea that women are bad at writing about sex because they bring other pesky things into it, like, yanno, emotions and stuff. DUH! Idiot.

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Maybe she means that women cannot write erotica for men as well as men because what they're into wrt sex is different. Of course, the reverse is equally valid.

[ukcalico.livejournal.com]

No clue indeed! But, as you say, a part of me is pleased about that. But still! I expected more from radio 4.