LZ Granderson: A football player said something stupid about women. Let it go.
by LZ Granderson, Los Angeles Times
May 18, 2024
3 minutes
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LOS ANGELES — Between 1800 and 1900, women made up only around 10% of the world's authors. Evelyn Beatrice Hall, who was born in 1868, adopted the pseudonym Stephen G. Tallentyre to improve her chances of being published, and in 1906 she wrote one of history's most important defenses of free speech: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
To this day,
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