Pronouns.
Goddamn
pronouns! It drives you mad. You're taught at school to establish
who's speaking and present with names and then move on to “he”,
“her” and so on so as not to test your reader's patience.
Then
you write a scene with a gay couple and suddenly there's all this
bloody ambiguity about which partner is doing what. You can't even do
the physical characteristics thing like “the redhead did this”,
“the brunette did that” because that's so impersonal and doesn't
suit an intimate scene and is even more, even longer bloody words.
So
instead you end up naming people every other line.
I
know there's a lot of debate about language and sexuality and gender
these days and maybe we don't need to add another layer to the whole
thing but maybe we should, as a society, get on this.
You
know, not just for my own selfish needs, just mainly.
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