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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Yes, I was asking out of curiosity on why you think it matters what she says. It was blunty phrased, and tone was of course lost in translation. She was a writer and a critic. But those aren’t distinctions that I find compelling. Anyone can criticise and stir up contrary opinions. Being a writer just makes it easier to put it in a way that others will see or read.

    So yes, I did want to know, and in short I am gathering that you just find her words self evident? The writing makes a fair point, but I think it was more relevant during the time of writing, and she says as much in the passage you pasted here that it may change with time. At the very least I don’t find it to be disparaging the patients afflicted with cancer in the way she suggests. I partially agree that it is used as an extremist comparison. But with so much being compared to cancer, I feel that it has lost its edgey bite and is now just a comparative. But maybe that’s more that I am personally numb to it as a comparison.

    At the very least, I personally don’t see her to be some irrefutable authority on the matter. And because of that I’m not sure why she is being posited that way. Hence my question. If your answer is that it’s self evidentiary, that’s fine. Just wanted to hear your reasoning on why I should take her seriously or care what she has to say on the matter.


  • You are the one positing that her works matter. Me asking a question about why I should care isn’t predicated on whether or not I know anything about the topic or her writing and criticism. If I am intimately familiar with her work, then you should be able to articulate why it should matter to me. Likewise, if I know nothing, you should be able to articulate why her work should matter to me. Nothing changes.

    If you cannot articulate to anyone but another person already familiar with her works, of their validity and import then you do not sufficiently understand said works to propose others should heed the words they contain. You would just be someone referencing another’s work in a self important manner as if it brings you validity or standing for your own opinions. Which it does not. Empty reference brings you no backing or validty, you have to assert your reasoning.