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Ursula Le Guin's The Wave In The Mind; Excerpt from the opening essay, "Introducing Myself"
Topic Started: Jul 17 2016, 04:07 AM (35 Views)
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I am a man. Now you may think I've made some kind of silly mistake about gender, or maybe that I'm trying to fool you, because my first name ends in a, and I own three bras, and I've been pregnant five times, and other things like that that you might have noticed, little details. But details don't matter. If we have anything to learn from politicians, it's that details don't matter. I am a man and I want you to believe and accept this as a fact, just as I did for many years.

You see, when I was growing up at the time of the Wars of the Medes and Persians, . . . there were no women. Women are a very recent invention. I predate the invention of women by decades . . . So when I was born, there were actually only men. People were men. They all had one pronoun, his pronoun, so that's who I am. A writer knows which side his bread is buttered on. That's me, the writer, him. I am a man.
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