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From the link: > Known as sensitivity readers, or sometimes authenticity readers, consultants like Sally are a growing part of publishing, hired to correct the
by wellthisisgreat 4y ago
From the link:
> Known as sensitivity readers, or sometimes authenticity readers, consultants like Sally are a growing part of publishing, hired to correct the pre-publication missteps of authors who don't share the same traits—or "lived experience," to use a favored buzzword—as their characters.
God, what kind of a horrible person would take up such a job. Jesus Christ I mean just don't publish the book don't hire some couch sjw to "fix" it.
I guess the author can still choose to not publish
- throwaway12245 4y ago>what kind of a horrible person would take up such a job https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bowdler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bowdler
- slg 4y ago>God, what kind of a horrible person would take up such a job. Take a job as an editor? That is all this person is doing. It is something that publishers have done forever except this editor has a more narrow scope of what they are editing.
- wellthisisgreat 4y agoIt doesn’t sound like those “sensitivity readers” are editors, more like some weaponized Twitter outrage mob. I get that the publishers want to preemptively strike down / appease those outragers, but Jesus Christ, to like reading and to become a full-time “holier than thought”-er. This is so depressing
- Veen 4y agoLots of people want to work in publishing, especially middle-class English Lit graduates who are most likely to be politically aligned with this sort of editing work.
- cld8483 4y agoThose who can't write, edit.