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Originally Posted by ATDrake
We should, but neither the publishing industry, nor real life seem to work that way, and I don't see merit-based egalitarianism becoming the go-to decision-making process any time soon.
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Should we not be the change we want to see?
How can we say "it's wrong to judge an author because she's female" (including your J.K. Rowling example) when we're doing exactly that, and judging authors because they're female? If we want decisions to be made based on the merits of the work, independent of the gender of the author, shouldn't we be judging on the merits of the work, independent of the gender of the author?
In simpler terms (I'm trying to make my posts shorter, really!) if we say "these books are different because they were written by women" we're saying the people who wouldn't buy books by a woman named Alice, who wouldn't publish books by a woman named Carolyn, and who insisted that a woman named Joanne hide her gender, were
right. And I refuse to believe that.
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