Anis Shivani says teaching creative writing is bad.

Karen Babine calls him out as sexist.

My own two cents:
Shivani is kind of a douche. I was very irritated by this sentence – ‘Literature as we have known it through history springs from genius — that most politically incorrect of words.‘ – and it went downhill for me from there.

It’s the kind of macho posturing I hate. It’s a variation of ‘I just tell it like it is.‘ Whenever someone says that, you know they’re about to be a real a–hole.

It’s also that faux rebelliousness. I’m a rebel. I’m out there. I’m going to say stuff you won’t like because I’m such a freaking independent thinker.

And all that for ‘genius.’ Really? That’s your anti-politically correct statement? Great literature partakes of genius? No one considers this politically correct, you’re trying to make yourself sound cool by pretending you’re saying something politically incorrect.

The whole issue of what is and isn’t politically incorrect is just stupid anyway. ‘Genius’ is not politically incorrect. In fact, I think you’ll find that most politically incorrect stuff you hear is better classified as racist stuff.