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Discussion"ALERT: BIAS INCIDENT!"
This was the title of an email my kid just received from his university.
The email continued:
It is with a heavy heart that I must recount the vicious and cruel attack that was made in a second-floor women's bathroom yesterday. This kind of attack is unprecedented and will not be tolerated here at (typical Midwestern university of no particular renown). When a student went into a bathroom stall in this bathroom, they discovered a "Transwomen are Men" sticker attached to the wall of the stall.
This type of inhuman attack based on sex and gender can never be tolerated here at (university), but unfortunately, our bathrooms do not contain cameras, so we cannot yet identify the perpetrator. We will, however, continue to try to find all responsible parties and take appropriate action.
A STICKER, Y'ALL.
My kid is now having serious second thoughts about even BEING at this university over this BS. What are they going to do even if they DO catch the young woman responsible (heaven forbid)? And that little crack about cameras ... surely they're not implying that they need cameras in the bathroom ... ?
Some of Margaret Atwood's books are interesting – I liked Surfacing, for example, but she's written lots of other books if that's not for you.
Alice Munro (e.g. Lives of Girls and Women) and Margaret Laurence (e.g. The Stone Angel) have also written books about women.
All three of these women are second-wave or older Canadian women.
I second The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper.
Older authors also include Mary Stewart and Helen MacInnes. They're not feminist but they do have strongly written female characters.
I've read some of Atwood's poetry, but have never known where to start with her fiction, so having a recommendation is helpful.
I'm definitely trying to read more older authors, I like keeping up with contemporary fiction for the aspect of having a community of readers to talk about books with, but I definitely need some more variety so I'll look into all these authors! Thanks!
I haven’t read it since it came out in the 90s, but I really liked Alias Grace. I also second Munro and Laurence. The voices of my formative years.
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