0 of 5 of these authors are male pure coincidence, I'm sure, and not evidence of systematic discrimination in the F&SF publishing and media world https://twitter.com/AndrewLiptak/status/1301585298036490240 …
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8/ Less than 8% of the SFF YA books that are published are by men. Please join me,
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9/ Foundation Trilogy and Lord of the Rings are like the US Constitution - they were written 100 years ago. I'm talking about TODAY.https://twitter.com/MidwestProle/status/1301605762712711173 …
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10/ me, a peasant: here is data about Tor, taken from Tor's own webite you, an intellectual: iS iT pEeR rEvIEwEd tHo ?!?!? https://twitter.com/InkstainsD/status/1301606082092163072 …
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11/ That wasn't an ad hominem attack, as I know nothing about you and said nothing about you. I criticized your argument that data must be peer reviewed to be valid or useful or trustworthy. https://twitter.com/InkstainsD/status/1301607555672793091 …
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12/ me: <counts apples on the table> me: there are five apples on the table IFLS 21st century youth: iS iT pEeR rEvIEwEd ?!?!?
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13/ is your stance that publishers ONLY discriminate against men in the YA field? that might be correct; perhaps I can step back from my earlier claims and we can agree on that ...https://twitter.com/elizabeth_case/status/1301613818414616583 …
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14/ if "86.84% of YA SF that's published is written by women" is a TOE HOLD, then what does complete and fair representation of women in the field look like? 95% ? 99% ?https://twitter.com/elizabeth_case/status/1301621428589076483 …
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15/ Also, how can you claim that publishing is "male dominated" when 78% of the staff at publishers are female? What I see is that there is a systemic problem where a female dominated industry seeks to exclude the Other (male) writers.https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/27/us-study-finds-publishing-is-overwhelmingly-white-and-female …
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16/ But women make up the majority of all staff at publishers, a majority of book buyers, a majority of new authors...https://twitter.com/elizabeth_case/status/1301622862663606272 …
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17/ Yes, I agree that women hold internalized biases, and this is why I'm saying that we maybe need to consider affirmative action and quotas, not just on the books that publishers buy, but also on the staff that they hire.https://twitter.com/elizabeth_case/status/1301623484754333696 …
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18/ good question. Unclear, but maybe not! Men did pass the 19th amendment, giving women the vote, and men used to run the publishing industry, but invited women in. So we have evidence that men invite in outsiders, but women do not. Need to fix thathttps://twitter.com/elizabeth_case/status/1301624186809483264 …
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19/ perhaps so! But back to the fact that women make up around 80% of the publishing staff and - surprise! - women make up about 80% of the YA SFF books that publishers choose to publish, even tho they only make up 50% of the population - how do we fix?https://twitter.com/elizabeth_case/status/1301625801666957312 …
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20/ the only hard SF I know of is being published by indy authors like
@KarlKGallagher ; big publishers seem to have foresaken the hot white core of SF for garbage https://twitter.com/GreenShootsS/status/1301628828171800577 …This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread
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