We cross posted Eva.
We play with the cards we hold. It is a cop-out to say that it is someone else's fault that we cannot do more. Today, as Paul has stated elsewhere in this thread, in Australia we are enjoying a long weekend and I have a little more free time but I am annoyed that I allowed myself to get embroiled in this thread when I should be writing poetry and even, God forbid, sending work out. I made a decision and have to abide by such.
You speak generalities.
If there is a gender bias in the publishing of female poets how does that sit with blind selection? Do we see in publications that adopt this method of selection an increase in work by women poets?
Facts are needed, not assumptions. I am not the only male who does not fit a stereotype I know of many others, a medical specialist, married and not separated, who is the primary caregiver to his children, a retired engineer who carries out every domestic duty, a policeman who has taken long service leave to look after a newborn child so that his wife can follow her career...
I detest all manufactured division it belittles us all.
Jan
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