Kathleen Jamie: 'Nature writing has been colonised by white men'

Kathleen Jamie recently spent “valuable minutes” of her life totting up all the books and authors who have been shortlisted for the prestigious Wainwright prize for British nature and travel writing. The tally is 26 books by men and 14 by women. For winners, the ratio is five men to one woman.

Terminal Stage feminism: there hasn't been anything to fight for in decades, but you are old, lonely, angry, so spend the rest of your miserable life complaining about rubbish no one cares about. KathleenJamie you will die alone with your cats. Move to Spain, YoullBeHappier

Oh, ffs. How many anti white articles can you peddle per day? On the subject, how many non white staff do you have? You're a sinking ship.

I'm here for my fellow pinko-grey boys who didn't read past the clickbait but got Mad. Do we know the definition of colonized anymore? She describes a field, says it has exploded recently, and subsequently been colonized by certain writers - seems accurate.

How can a white person win a prize, in a mostly white, western nation? It's an outrage, and proof of racism.

1) The overwhelming majority of people in this country are white 2) Many nature writers have studied a biological science at University, hence middle class 3) Maybe men are more interested in nature than women 4) It's 2019. Nobody's stopping anyone else writing about nature.

My Dad loves birds. Writes about birds. He just likes birds and is white and a man. Nothing nasty in it. He just likes birds.

They colonised the world a long time ago.....

These people are bonkers. There,... I’ve said it.

She's not wrong, but 'colonised' sounds a bit hostile to me.

What determines who becomes a writer and what they write about?!

When is this kind of shit ever going to end.

Women most affected

Remember - “white” and “White male” are acceptable slurs in the liberal lexicon

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