/lit/ - Literature

I went to >jezebel to read the said article about the woman who sent out query letters and only got responses when she pretended to be male, and this got me thinking. Do feminists have no notion of tactics and how to convince people/change things?

Because I see this so very often -
>ok, if that's sexist then how should I do this?
>well, NOT LIKE THAT!

It seems to be based around a negative prescriptivism that shows a disgustingly big feeling of entitlement, and a lot of good faith Their tactic is pretty much to deconstruct things and say what they do not want; to say how things should NOT be but not how they should be, ever. They take a negative and expect others, who are wholly uninterested in the issues of women, to create positive on top of it, they want people who have nothing to win from and no desire for 'equality' to create a new conduct. Give them the work, never once wondering whether they are even interested in going through with it and finding a new way to treat women. They hope that once men see the (in their opinion illogical) roots of their sexism they will change it and stop it, but suggest no replacement.

Would it not be better to act under the premise of equality of potential/intellect, since they believe this equality is real? I'm still thinking of her and the necessity of a male name to publish... if it's not intentional sexism from the people who ignored her for her female name, how does pointing it out help?
Would it not be better to publish under a male name, and just generally act well and be a decent person INSIDE sexism/"the patriarchy" and give living proof that women are capable? To change people's perceptions on women not by analyzing why they think like they do, but actively changing women's image through respectable action that show capacity rather than tell?

I imagine that if women started actually doing things that will earn them respect, people would naturally stop being sexist as these actions would make sexism baseless. As is, they just further prove that "women are inferior", their actions do not indicate that they are capable of anything other than whining, they refuse to (or are incapable of) prove sexism wrong. Their actions don't make sexism cease to correspond to reality.
She should have published that book under a male name.

>>5887651

I really enjoyed this movie

I liked the scene when they broke into the library

the music was interesting

kerouac was very handsome

>>5212195
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