>"The books world is sexist – and a one day promotion isn't enough to fix it"
>"But while we get the public vote, the literary establishment continues to overlook all bar a handful of female writers."
Why aren't you doing more to stop the over-representation of a certain group - yes, that's right, MEN - in the literary world Veeky Forums?
And before you ask, racists, yes the brave author is a Jew, and is therefore also an oppressed minority who are overlooked by the racist literary establishment.
Because I read what I want to, not what I am told to
As long as they are not western, white, or rich women I am all for it.
>"Hey check out these blogs and twitter posts!"
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
It's published in The Guardian actually, one of the most-read newspapers in the world.
It's funny because I have never met a single person outside of trollbait posters who read it.
Pic related proves her point., by the way.
Look at the over-representation of Male writers on Granta's list of best contemporary writers!
And a female editor no less, gosh I can't imagine why she would choose so many Males to be on this list! Just look at how over-represented they are!
maybe women should write better books
because mags like Granta slavishly serve academia and men are overrepresented in academia
That's kind of anti-Semitic sweetie :(
Yes but if men only represent around 2% of the population, why should they represent almost 50% of Granta's top 40 contemporary writers?
Things like this are the reason I'm a feminist.
>all but a handful of women
It’s all but a handful of men too. Most male writers have to work day jobs. Most male writers’ work does not survive them. The winner gets the dinner and the mediocre fight for table scraps.
Maybe goys should just write better books.
i never understood this kind of women meme, women are the 50% of the population, they are not a minority, if they want to do stuff they should just do it and not point to the other 50% and tell them to do it for them
that says more about you than it does about the Guardian. (which, like all British newspapers, is shite.)
>reading based on the authors gender, skin colour or whatever
I'll never go full retard.
>the pleb masses are angry oh no
go away /pol/
This. Why do they act like it's a yellow brick road for any male to get a job? Unemployment is fucking hard, especially when you're the only demographic that isn't needed to fit a quota.
They will keep encroaching on every part of your life. Video games. Books. Fitness. Jobs. Tastes. Humour. Ad infinitum. They want you, the straight white male, the majority figure, the prominent through no fault of your own, to suffer. To be downtrodden like they feel you are.
In the words of Nietzsche,
>those birds of prey are evil, and he who is most unlike a bird of prey, who is most like an opposite, a lamb - is he not good?
Come. We have the answers
Literally every University academic ever
>Why aren't you doing more
Why should I?
If people out there want to work towards more representation for women fine, go ahead, but I got my own shit to worry about.
poor straight white males! it's literally anuddah shoah!
>literal oppression Olympics list
desu, I thought diversity-fags would at least try to clumsily cover their tracks and mix it up a little bit.
>implying you read Granta or care about this niche of society
>implying you are not falsely deriving generalities from particularities
You people cherry pick from reality to turn your world into a nightmare.
I do not care about society, contrary to what secular humanists like you want me to
I'm not a /pol/-fag, and I don't obsess over this kind of brain-melting stupidity. I'm just amazed that it exists, that there's a platform for it, that it hasn't drifted off into irrelevance after being publicly ridiculed and called out for presenting itself as anything other than badly-executed propaganda.
All contemporary media is propaganda, that is why i read classic lit.
Star Wars
Ghostbusters
Road Warrior
Women sports announcers during men’s sports
Vidya games
Comic books
They want everything.
They hate to see us happy.
Their dream is to take away everything we enjoy and make money doing it.
Do you not care for your own agency? You’re losing it
I would be fine with it if those Lgbtpocwocs had any personality beyond the cliches they learned to regurgitate at victimhood school
I can feel contented, because my anonymous image board hateposts probably have more literary value than the paper by products of managerial gynocratic neoliberalism, published only to fulfill quotas and read by no one. Nobody knows who you are on here. As everything is leveled into nothingness absorbed into an homogenous leviathan with no outside a world of deracinated guinea pigs farmed for monetizable metadata, I am the voice of the atomized ex-person who sees it all and doesn't like it one bit.
On the contrary the minute I start identifying with "my" demographic like some resentful nigger is the moment I have truly lost any right to call myself an agent.
The beauty of being smarter and more cunning is that I don't have to care what people think of me
>women bought 57% of all books sold in the UK. This isn’t a blip: that figure holds up year after year. On top of that, women account for the majority of readers of the big blockbusters like The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, whose readers were 70% female
>if females stopped buying shit books, we would get less shit books
>women bought 57%
>"The books world is sexist
so why don't they stop buying sexist shit?
They’ve already got demographic control. Very few men read. Those that do mostly read sci fi or non fiction. There’s just a small niche that will love DFW or Ruggles or McCarthye more than them and they just can’t have that.
They might have demographic control but they don't have quality control. It only takes a small readership of intelligent men reading elite male writers to be more influential and important than that other 99% of writers
They regurgitating the works of the men before them and they know this and they can't stand it
>Men control the world
>Jews control the world
Hey guys I think a synthesis is possible.
memes aside, if the pc types adjusted the oppression olympics pyramid to have male jews at that top they might actually turn into the next national socialist movement
Quality isn't the point. It's absurd to expect women to have the time and money needed to write as well as men while also living in a world where it is seen as ok to rape and murder women.
desu if you have a problem with this article you should just go back to pol and never return
REPRESENTATION
MATTERS
I think it's not fair that they use these thin horizontal lines to give an impression that there is a lot of text in this area, while in fact the article is two sentences long.
people are simply too memed.
If you point out the easily verifiable fact that many powerful institutions are ridiculously Jewish you are accused of being a 'conspiracy theorist' and wanting to genocide people. There's nowhere to go with a situation like that.
>As if people are zombies
Are they not?
>women buy 57% of books
>women are ~51% of the population
Damn
The Guardian is aimed at the educated upper class of Britain.
Its for middlebrow retards
The PC movement is already the new National Socialism. It's a racial spoils system which systematically discriminates against certain groups considered to be overly influential, and violently censors and punishes anyone who dares speak out against it. It's hilarious that these New Racists have the nerve to call anyone else a bigot.
The Guardian has turned into buzzfeed/huffpost about four to five years ago. Don't bother opening it.
that's because you're a working class piece of trash
maybe try asking someone who's not a rural retard what newspapers they read
hahahahha, actually thinking the guardian is 'upper class'. You must also think your media studies professor and your secondary school dad teacher are upper class intellectuals.
Women are the only authors given attention now.
>it's appalling that you keep blaming the media as if people are zombies
As we all know propaganda has never worked on anyone at any moment in history
it would apply to the denizens of the right as well, careful sharp blades tend to lack discrimination and this one has more than two edges user :))
>le clapping emoji man
This
>trash
FOY
>Video games
get the fuck out
Thats why people will start shooting then.
And I am glad I will live to see death squads for this sjw trash.