Quotation by Joanna Russ

The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person—in this case, female—has created the "right" value—i.e., art.)
Denial of Agency: She didn't write it.
Pollution of Agency: She shouldn't have written it.
Double Standard of Content: Yes, but look what she wrote about.
False Categorizing: She is not really she [an artist] and it is not really it [serious, of the right genre, aesthetically sound, important, etc.] so how could "she" have written "it"?
Or simply: Neither "she" nor "it" exists (simple exclusion).
Joanna Russ (b. 1937), U.S. science fiction writer and feminist. How to Suppress Women's Writing, ch. 6 (1983).

Satirizing mainstream sexist reactions to high-quality writing by women.
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