Author VS Naipaul Says Women Authors Suck - Even Jane Austen

The winner of the 2001 Nobel prize for literature is a total sexist douchebag.

In an interview at the Royal Geographic Society, he recently said that no woman writer was his literary match, and that Jane Austen was way too sentimental a writer for him, a man, to appreciate.

He's also a pompous ass, and thinks he can tell from the writing whether the author is a man or a woman based on how "good" it is.

"I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not. I think [it is] unequal to me."

According to him, women have "the narrow view of the world... and inevitably for a woman, she is not a complete master of a house, so that comes over in her writing too."

Yeah, It sucks how I am not "the master of my house." I mean, I spend all my free time churning butter by hand, or at the loom. That is, when I'm not spinning at my wheel.

He even has a story about his publisher, a woman, who tried to become a writer and inevitably, she sucked. "My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh. I don't mean this in any unkind way."

Poor man! Having to read "feminine tosh." I guess that's what this is, what I'm writing right now?

His biographer, Patrick French, describes him as "an egotist, a domestic tyrant and a sadist." He's also an admitted physical abuser of his partners. And seriously - can I just say this? - bear with me. I have never read a goddamned thing by the man and have no desire to do so. I consider myself an intelligent, well-read, educated person. In fact, I'm quite snobbish about it sometimes. But the last thing I ever want to fucking do is read about the legacy of British colonialism written by an asshole.

How about this: we take his prize away and give it to someone who will say, Thank you!" instead of acting like a total jerk?