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An intellectual
"Five French writers have resigned as jurors from a literary prize inspired by Marcel Proust because of rape and sexual assault claims made against its chairman, a well-known television presenter." - The Times, December 02 2021
An intellectual
is someone who
sits on a panel and
tells you it's okay
to have sex with children
so long as you write lots of books
that no one wants to read.
An intellectual
is someone who
sits on a panel and
tells you it's okay
to have sex with children
so long as you write lots of books
that no one wants to read.
Published 2nd Dec 2021
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2nd Dec 2021 4:46pm
Rather than resigning, if the claims were true, I would have challenged everyone entering the contest to write about what douchebag behaviour the chairman was guilty of.
2nd Dec 2021 6:02pm
To be fair, the chairman in that case wasn't accused of raping children. It's just that the quote inspired the poem, which was based on things I've been reading for a while now about the French literary establishment's reckoning with abusers in its midst.
The most egregious case is of the novelist and memoirist Gabriel Matzneff, now in his 80s, who sexually abused a teenage girl. She recently released a book about her experiences. But he was also writing about, for example, having sex with prepubescent boys while on tours of Asian countries. Writing about it in books that were sold in shops and discussed on television in France. Not sold to anyone with any taste, of course, but very popular among the intelligentsia.
The most egregious case is of the novelist and memoirist Gabriel Matzneff, now in his 80s, who sexually abused a teenage girl. She recently released a book about her experiences. But he was also writing about, for example, having sex with prepubescent boys while on tours of Asian countries. Writing about it in books that were sold in shops and discussed on television in France. Not sold to anyone with any taste, of course, but very popular among the intelligentsia.
2nd Dec 2021 6:44pm
Oh, ugh. That's just all fucking kinds of wrong. Cripes. Knowingly supporting an obvious dirtbag makes one a dirtbag in my book.
2nd Dec 2021 7:17pm
It’s the old joke: what’s the difference between pornography and art? A government grant.
