Thursday, July 19, 2007

An open letter to the Y chromosomed among us

This is also regurgitated from one of my past emails. Other than begging 170 strangers not to hurt my feelings, I think this is one of my more useful messages:

I know some of the male members of our club have expressed that they feel outnumbered in our club, and sometimes alienated by the women-driven pieces of literature that have been selected for discussion. So my response to that is I wouldn't object to helping somebody organize a mostly-guys book meeting sometime to discuss a book that speaks to a male perspective (I highly suggest reading Fight Club.) And by the same token maybe one of the gals would like to have a similar, mostly-women's meetup one of these days for a book. However, my suggestion would be not to exclude anybody from either of your groups- should they ever come to fruition -but try to welcome outsider perspectives as much as possible.
As a side note...if there happens to be a team of PhDs in Irish Literature in our midst, I'd love it if they could invite me to a discussion of Ulysses, and tell me just what the @#$% that book is about anyway

You know what would be my wildest dream? If one group of mostly guys could read a guy's-guy's book...one group of mostly gals could read a gal's-gal's book. And after they're each finished, they SWITCH books! and compare their reactions. But maybe I should just keep dreaming....

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