If what you're looking for in this year is to diversify your reading, make sure to read Dorothy Allison for a dirt-poor Southern American perspective, and Harriet McBryde Johnson for incisive writing about disability, and all of Colette's work for a non-anglophone perspective, and Alice Walker's books for unsentimental looks at non-traditional families, and so on.
Or you could have said:
And when you're done with this year, you could choose another year to read books by people from unfamiliar perspectives in other ways, such as disability, etc.
But what you chose to say was:
The real real diversity is among different types of white men! Terry Pratchett was a white man: aren't white men awesome? Wouldn't you be sad if you spent even one eightieth of your estimated lifespan reading Rosemary Kirstein instead of Terry Pratchett? I myself am a white man! Why would you limit yourself even for a year to the extremely narrow viewpoint of everyone who is not a white man? NEVER LOOK AWAY FROM THE WHITE MEN.
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If what you're looking for in this year is to diversify your reading, make sure to read Dorothy Allison for a dirt-poor Southern American perspective, and Harriet McBryde Johnson for incisive writing about disability, and all of Colette's work for a non-anglophone perspective, and Alice Walker's books for unsentimental looks at non-traditional families, and so on.
Or you could have said:
And when you're done with this year, you could choose another year to read books by people from unfamiliar perspectives in other ways, such as disability, etc.
But what you chose to say was:
The real real diversity is among different types of white men! Terry Pratchett was a white man: aren't white men awesome? Wouldn't you be sad if you spent even one eightieth of your estimated lifespan reading Rosemary Kirstein instead of Terry Pratchett? I myself am a white man! Why would you limit yourself even for a year to the extremely narrow viewpoint of everyone who is not a white man? NEVER LOOK AWAY FROM THE WHITE MEN.
So, lol no.