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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
I'm not trying to equate anything. I'm just saying that if we think it's bad to do something -- in this case, focusing on the gender of the writer -- then we shouldn't be doing it. To say "it's bad when it's to the detriment of women, so it's good if it's in favor of women" is saying that two wrongs make a right.
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I think it's a good thing to look for writers that are underrepresented in the publishing market. I realized that a good majority of the books I've read and are on my to read list are by white men published in either Britain or the USA just because of how big publishing industry works, but I want to give other storytellers a shot.
It's just like looking for Canadian writers, or indie writers, or a male romance writer. Ultimately, when I sit down and read a book, I expect a damn good story regardless of who wrote it, and I'll still violently throw a bad book across the room even if it was written by an indie Aboriginal-Canadian scifi quadriplegic female writer.
I just looked at books I've read since 2006, and 22% of them are by female writers. I don't read romance. That looks just about the same number in parliament!