Take Offence Tuesday: Women Can't Write?

Take Offence Tuesday is about appreciating the heights we have reached in just a few decades. It is easy to sometimes forget where we started but it is important to remind ourselves. TOT (Take Offence Tuesday) invites women to be offended by the old school of thought that limited their lives to house hold chores. Once you have read some of these, it is important to let them go and allow your actions to create balance and equality.

This is a conversation between Dorothy Sayers in which she defends her ability to connect with her fellow man.  

 “A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves.

Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of male friends?

I replied that, on the contrary, I was an only child and had practically never seen or spoken to any men of my own age till I was about twenty-five.

 "Well," said the man, "I shouldn't have expected a woman (meaning me) to have been able to make it so convincing."

 I replied that I had coped with this difficult problem by making my men talk, as far as possible, like ordinary human beings.

This aspect of the matter seemed to surprise the other speaker; he said no more, but took it away to chew it over.

 One of these days it may quite likely occur to him that women, as well as men, when left to themselves, talk very much like human beings also.”  

 ― Dorothy L. Sayers,