Mary, you may well be onto something about women being, in general, less prepared to put up with a string of rejection letters. My poems were rejected by everybody for years How did I put up with it. I just thought the buggers were wrong and put it out of my mind. Pehaps that ability to ignore unpleasant truths is quite male. A silly example. When England lose a cricket match I simply refuse t read about cricket for a week and pretend it hasn't happened. Is the ostrich mentality more male than female. I suspect so. What do the rest of you think? You think it's bollocks, don't you? Very well. I shall simply, as the man said, treat you with complete ignoral.
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