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I suspect there are many more who never had the opportunity: As a start, I guess that most humans in history have been illiterate. More did not have access to p
by wolverine876 4y ago
I suspect there are many more who never had the opportunity: As a start, I guess that most humans in history have been illiterate. More did not have access to publishers. First, before the printing press (~1475 in England), publishing more than your personal hand-written volume was very expensive - each copy hand-written. Also in most of the world, usually only those who were considered male, of a certain socio-economic class, and whose writing fit norms (not controversial in content, style, etc.), had access to publishing.
- cafard 4y agohttps://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/elegy-written-country-churchyard https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/elegy-written-countr...
- cat_plus_plus 4y ago"usually only those who were considered male" If digital media manages to survive, archaeologists of the future will have a blast sifting through our ruins. Like we are still trying to puzzle out why Mayans played a ball game for a chance to be sacrificed and then just abandoned their cities. In case my writing is excavated - dear distant decedent, we basically just forgot how to breed and were succeeded by a civilization that could still manage that task.
- wolverine876 4y ago> we basically just forgot how to breed and were succeeded by a civilization that could still manage that task I'm a little lost about what that has to do with discrimination by publishers against writers by perceived gender? Does that somehow disrupt 'breeding'?