This meme is being passed around on Facebook a LOT (as I mentioned yesterday). A friend of mine did it, and was upset to see she wrote like Dan Brown. When I gave a very toned-down version of why this meme doesn't mean anything, and how a friend of mine (no, I didn't use your name) received inflammatory comments from the meme creator, who sees "all writers as equal," my friend's cousin (a white male who teaches English) told me "you need to calm the fuck down over this. It's JUST a meme. Who cares if no black people are included, and if only three women are represented? We all know the best literature has come from white men anyhow."
Privileged response, anyhow? And from an English teacher? I was floored.
Needless to say, I replied and told him it wasn't the silly meme that was upsetting, it was the creator's comments and the fact he excluded so many amazing writers because he was focusing on those "white men" anyhow. He then replied that I was, basically, an idiot who didn't know about writing, and that the writers I was compared to (since I shared to show I got the "white male" response, too... since my results were Dickens, Joyce, etc) "sucked." Which was basically putting me down.
No point in continuing an argument with an idiot, so I stopped replying. But how silly that a guy - an English teacher, nonetheless - who told me I was over-reacting then came back with such negative comments.
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Date: 2010-07-16 12:56 am (UTC)This meme is being passed around on Facebook a LOT (as I mentioned yesterday). A friend of mine did it, and was upset to see she wrote like Dan Brown. When I gave a very toned-down version of why this meme doesn't mean anything, and how a friend of mine (no, I didn't use your name) received inflammatory comments from the meme creator, who sees "all writers as equal," my friend's cousin (a white male who teaches English) told me "you need to calm the fuck down over this. It's JUST a meme. Who cares if no black people are included, and if only three women are represented? We all know the best literature has come from white men anyhow."
Privileged response, anyhow? And from an English teacher? I was floored.
Needless to say, I replied and told him it wasn't the silly meme that was upsetting, it was the creator's comments and the fact he excluded so many amazing writers because he was focusing on those "white men" anyhow. He then replied that I was, basically, an idiot who didn't know about writing, and that the writers I was compared to (since I shared to show I got the "white male" response, too... since my results were Dickens, Joyce, etc) "sucked." Which was basically putting me down.
No point in continuing an argument with an idiot, so I stopped replying. But how silly that a guy - an English teacher, nonetheless - who told me I was over-reacting then came back with such negative comments.
People make me very sad sometimes.