On Pandering by
Claire Vaye Watkins
In this
essay Claire explains the struggles of her being a female writer. She was never
acknowledge as a writer because she was a woman, but to her she was a writer
whether she was good or bad she was still a writer. After an email sent by
Stephen Elliot saying how he wanted to sleep in her bed and her telling him no
and him going on about how she was unsure and was drinking made her realize
what she had to do to have her voice heard. She figured the only way to do this
was to write like a man. She started to watch men, whatever they did she
watched them. She wanted to be able to write something that would be appealing
to the famous male writers not just the female writers. She felt like by her
being overlooked by everyone because she was a woman was sexual entitlement.
