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To: Rambi who wrote (27713)	1/6/1999 12:28:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 108807

To examine the plight of male writers of the past, to which I am perhaps inordinately sensitive: supporting a wife and children, obliged (if educated) to conform to a nebulous and ever-shifting definition of social propriety defined almost entirely by women, which seldom approves of any sort of creative endeavor (unless promptly profitable). Since the opportunity to write would be almost by definition restricted to the elite, who alone had access to education, one could almost argue that women, whose domestic duties in the elite home rarely went beyond the decorative, might almost have been better off... That's purposely overstated, but I would point out that artists of any stripe and either gender have generally had to break from all supporting social conventions, and have usually paid the price. The most obvious price is poverty - tough for anyone to bear, but no more for a woman than for a man, who has to deal with the rather effective pressure brought by families to abandon scribbling and do something profitable. It isn't easy for anyone, I'd guess. Steve