Authors should lead with their product, not their pronouns.

A thoroughly enjoyable fisking by the redoubtable Larry Correla.  From Fisking a GQ Article - Why Won't Men Read My Preachy Literati Bullshit?  An evergreen question among the chattering class.

Also, notice that everything Ash says is cloaked in this aura of ponderous importance? You can’t just write books. Oh no. They are tools to MAKE SENSE OF CULTURAL CHANGE HURUMPH HURUMPH.

That shit is why people come over to the genre fiction bad neighborhood where I hang out and buy fun books about zeppelin fights and giant robots.

But really, not much point in excerpting.  It is quietly amusing throughout to hear the second half of the conversation between a chattering class utopian ideologue and somebody from the real world.