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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-08-04 06:04 pm

[ SECRET POST #3135 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3135 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Floraverse]

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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[Bryan Cranston: Breaking Bad vs. Malcolm in the Middle]

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(Anonymous) 2015-08-05 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, no. Men are not discriminated against. Men have never been told that they should use a pen name or only use their initials and surname so that readers assume they're women. It's never been assumed that men don't have the imagination or intellectual capacity to be writers because they're men. A book isn't assumed by publishers, marketers, and critics to be special interest or tailored to a niche market just because the writer is a man. Refusing to read books written by men doesn't play into bullshit stereotypes used to excuse not publishing men's writing.

In short, it isn't the same thing if you swap in other demographic groups, because the situation isn't remotely the same, no matter how much various groups of disgruntled canines might whine.

(Anonymous) 2015-08-05 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Men have never been told that they should use a pen name or only use their initials and surname so that readers assume they're women."

Never say never, anon. Daniel Abraham's publishers made him take a penname that featured initials when he decided to write a YA novel so that YA readers would assume he was female.