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Sorry, Is There a Woman In Your Way: At What Point Does Literary Criticism Become Sexism?

Adebayo Adeniran
4 min readAug 27, 2022

My take on Ms. Wildfire’s piece.

I am highly opinionated.

And this virtue(or vice) stalks everything that I have published here.

And It must also be stated that I am just as committed to reading other writers as I am to writing in this beloved space of ours.

And over the course of my time as an active writer, which has been well over 19 months, I have had great cause to disagree with a huge amount of the material that a number of marquee writers have published here.

Male or female, Black or white.

When the vampire — Umair Haque — wrote something utterly unintelligent and disingenuous about the United Kingdom, I took it upon myself to write a riposte based on my knowledge of the country of my birth and extensive education.

The article in question is embedded below:

A few weeks ago, Ayodeji Awosika wrote what I considered to be a profoundly nonsensical article and I didn’t hold back in telling him what I thought of the piece:

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Adebayo Adeniran
Adebayo Adeniran

Written by Adebayo Adeniran

A lifelong bibliophile, who seeks to unleash his energy on as many subjects as possible

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