The argument of the article amounts to writing fiction is the equivalent of theft because there can be no fiction without using someone else's experience as a basis. Otherwise, you're writing autobiography or some other form of non-fiction.

She also ignores the fact that no one in the privileged groups she is railing against would even know about minorities without someone writing about them. And fiction connects emotionally in a way that non-fiction never does.

She rants against what she sees as elite privilege while demanding privilege for her defined groups. It's the defining hypocrisy of people who think they are being liberals and have achieved enlightenment. This is the sort of political correctness that conservatives point to when they want to blame liberals for social failures.

She has a point, of course she has a point. But a point is useful for targeted digging and poking and indicating; she's trying to use it as a club.

It makes me tired.

The rule here is, you can write pretty much anything that does not in my opinion damage the site. I remove five or ten comments a week, a blog or three, and in seventeen years, I've removed less than ten stories, half of those for plagiarism and only one for the intent to do harm to the site. Three others were removed for being short incoherent rants that did not qualify as stories in my opinion.

I will say that this woman is entitled to her position and a forum in which to put it forward; it's useful for discussion so it serves a purpose. She's wrong in the main, my opinion, but she's right to bring her view forward.

Hugs,
Erin