Roxane Gay is Spelled With One "N": Hideous Scribbling Women
Today, I am done with tired, gratuitous references to the appearances of attractive women writers in discussions of any kind about their books. And also, it’s weird that I have to be done with this in 2013. I literally had to double check my calendar last night, in case I was in a time warp. I was…
Roxane Gay keeping it real. In the same vein, I also thought about this when Susan Boyle became a thing. All the judges just expected her to be awful at singing because she’s plain on the eyes. My guess is that if she were a total young hottie, she may not have been the sensation she was because with beauty comes the assumption that you are just awesome at things, like singing. However, writing seems to be a different kind of art with different kinds of expectations, so that when there is an attractive FEMALE author it’s somehow cause for celebration.
Point is: follow Roxane Gay. She’s the bomb diggity.
