That's right. I'm male, therefore, my writing obviously cannot appeal to your female crowd. Not your lesbian crowd, your female crowd.
I bumped into a publisher that catagorically refuses to read anything of mine because of my gender. This just seems wrong to me. I support equal rights for women, god damn it. I don't live in a different world from females; sometimes my perspective isn't even different.
You can't publish me because of that dangly thing between my legs? I'm sorry, my ability to purchase your books and magazines just crash landed on the eastern seaboard.
I'd love everyone's thought on this sort of discrimination. Is it justified? Isn't the writing biz the same as any other business? Has anyone else come across this?
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I'm keeping a list of the Publishers in this post that only publish female authors, as I find them. Feel free to join me in boycotting them.
Virgin Publishing Ltd
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Lunacat Publishing
I bumped into a publisher that catagorically refuses to read anything of mine because of my gender. This just seems wrong to me. I support equal rights for women, god damn it. I don't live in a different world from females; sometimes my perspective isn't even different.
You can't publish me because of that dangly thing between my legs? I'm sorry, my ability to purchase your books and magazines just crash landed on the eastern seaboard.
I'd love everyone's thought on this sort of discrimination. Is it justified? Isn't the writing biz the same as any other business? Has anyone else come across this?
Edit:
I'm keeping a list of the Publishers in this post that only publish female authors, as I find them. Feel free to join me in boycotting them.
Virgin Publishing Ltd
The KKK has a similar marketing strategy.First things first. We accept submissions from female authors only, with no exceptions. We have found that, in this genre, authors tend to write better for their own gender. Besides, the fact that all our authors are guaranteed to be women is a valuable part of our marketing strategy.
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Lunacat Publishing
Then don't.We do not want to discriminate against male authors, but...
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