Young people will tell you, if you're not prepared to write the most violent, the most misogynistic, the most horrible kinds of rhymes and scenarios, you are not going to get air play.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
In terms of being vulgar, I don't think you need to be violent unless it's slapstick, violence to yourself. That can be funny - we've all tripped and fallen on our faces.
The kid who can play imaginatively doesn't tend to be violent. It's the same with adults.
I think women tend to write about how violence feels, whereas men tend to write about what violence looks like.
I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
I'm very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especially violent video games, are not a good thing for young kids.
The thing about a violent kid is that he can't play imaginatively.
All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.
Sometimes, as a young woman, you are boxed in more to playing characters that are emotional and vulnerable.
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