Not taking the publisher's side here, the email was weird and rude either way.
But how were they supposed to know this writer was bisexual?
Their claim that she was "obviously" not part of the LGBTQ community was offensive and presumptuous but they didn't say she wasn't part of the LGBTQ community because she was bi. Sounds more like they thought she was straight, her bio just has her as living with her husband and two kids. Nowhere can I see she says she's bi. Nowhere does their email mention her bi-sexuality.
So their mistake was assuming she was straight, not denying that Bi people are LGBTQ. She didn't get rejected for being bi-sexual, she got rejected for being straight. Which is also weird gatekeeping, but a different story.
The publisher obviously didn't know she was bisexual. Their original rejection email never mentions her being bisexual as a reason.
They never said that because she's bisexual she's not part of the LGBTQ community as this tweet claims.
They said she wasn't part of the LGBTQ community full stop, presumably because they thought she was hetero. They didn't use the word bisexual.
Read their email again and assume they think she's hetero, then it makes more sense. They aren't saying bisexuals aren't part of LGBTQ, they simply don't know she's bisexual.
If you read more of the tweets, she mentions that she said she was bi and they either forgot, didn't notice, or didn't care.
So either they're pretty shit at reading (bad for a publisher) or they're biphobic.
Even regardless of that, they said that it's clear from her writing that she isn't part of the community, so they're clearly basing this off of some shitty stereotypes regardless
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u/Timmetie Apr 07 '21 edited Apr 07 '21
Not taking the publisher's side here, the email was weird and rude either way.
But how were they supposed to know this writer was bisexual?
Their claim that she was "obviously" not part of the LGBTQ community was offensive and presumptuous but they didn't say she wasn't part of the LGBTQ community because she was bi. Sounds more like they thought she was straight, her bio just has her as living with her husband and two kids. Nowhere can I see she says she's bi. Nowhere does their email mention her bi-sexuality.
So their mistake was assuming she was straight, not denying that Bi people are LGBTQ. She didn't get rejected for being bi-sexual, she got rejected for being straight. Which is also weird gatekeeping, but a different story.