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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Lastly, I think we have begun using 'offended' entirely too much. I can see why someone might do a humorous double-take at the initial image (indeed, if all the books had been from female writers, that would have been even better). But was anyone truly offended? Did seeing that image cause anyone to lose sleep, ponder their value as a person or write a strongly worded message to the powers that be at Kobo? Honey, there are bigger fish to fry.
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This is on-point. I was not even remotely offended by the image I took. I was amused by the cloth-eared (or tin-eared) clumsiness of the Kobo marketers who gave not a second's consideration to the juxtaposition of quote and book covers. It was the clumsiness and lack of forethought that entertained me sufficiently to prompt the screenshot. A quote saying that only "a great man" could write history posted above an image of historical
fiction mostly written by women? It raised a chuckle for me, long before it raised many a hackle here.