Write what you feel you need to write. People will always put labels on you, and there's nothing you can do about that. To even worry about such abstract things can only put you in a hole mentally and stifle you. I know that you want to go into the literary world, which does mean you're more saddled with this kind of garbage than I will ever be with my genre kid book (oh, the horror! I'm writing fairy-tale fluff! I am a disgrace to womankind!) but try not to let it keep you from doing what you want to do. I saw a lot of this crap when I was in university. As a female, I was expected to write plays about vaginas and lesbians and everything I wrote was picked apart and psychoanalyzed and frankly, it ruined my passion. I hope that doesn't happen to you.
Oh, and I had a couple of pigs like that for professors, too. One of them would approach the prettier female students with a "I have a hot tub at home, are you feeling tense?" and then offer a back rub. Ew.
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Date: 2010-01-05 04:48 pm (UTC)Oh, and I had a couple of pigs like that for professors, too. One of them would approach the prettier female students with a "I have a hot tub at home, are you feeling tense?" and then offer a back rub. Ew.