Originally Posted by hildea
I'm pretty sure that you can find plenty new books with offensive content, stereotypes, and bias, if that's what you want to read 
Sensitivity readers aren't all that different from any other consultant an author might hire. If your book has an important character who is a rocket scientist, you might want a real rocket scientist to take a look, to help identify things which are embarrassingly wrong or actively harmful. Same if an important character is blind, trans, a Norwegian with Pakistani grandparents, or anything else which might have a strong impact in how they the experience life, and is different from the author's experience.
(And if you don't think this kind of consultancy is useful, take a brief look at some Men writing women-list, as very obvious examples of things that can go laughably wrong when authors don't know where their knowledge ends and their ignorance begins  ) |