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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
The notion that increasing diversity costs talent carries with it the implicit assumption that minorities are less talented than the people you are comparing them to.
Also, we should be clear, women, trans authors or books with gay characters might not be the best book for you, but some of us are rather enjoying FINALLY seeing ourselves reflected in the genres we read.
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Personally, I don't care about the author's gender, race or age or much else as long as they can write a good story. What I am dubious about is the jumping on the bandwagon mindset that seems very popular at the moment.
From what you wrote, I take it that you are okay with the books written about gay men written by women? A rather popular subgenre. Books about gay women written by straight women? Books about gay women written by men? With authors who are now making a character in their book a "person of colour"?
I'm not when that is all the character has to offer. No additions to the storyline, just a cardboard cutout character with a label so that author can claim to be PC.
Though I did get a chuckle from a book I read about 20 years ago about a couple passing in a small town in Somewhere, USA. The original cover showed a couple with two kids who were pretty much fitted the story line. For a recent reissue, the couple on the cover with no kids in view looked like recent immigrants from Tamil Nadu and would not pass in any room better lit than the proverbial coal cellar at midnight at the new moon.