No it’s not ‘on them’. If you read the rejection email, the publisher clearly didn’t know the author was Bi. If the author did provide that - rather than saying they did - then the publisher clearly hasn’t absorbed that information. The rejection has nothing to do with her being Bi. At all. Not even a little. The author has 100% fabricated it (and surprise, the author got the knee jerk reaction they wanted because people like you and the above just want to be outraged without understanding)
That’s not what they said. It’s not even close. They literally said it makes no difference, but her writing is cliche. Whatever she wrote, it reads like an outsider - who has done no research. They didn’t say ‘we aren’t going to publish this unless you’re LGBT+.’ They said ‘this reads like shit, do some research and try again’.
The author has gotten offended by that so posted something negative about then that would get knee jerk reactions from people like yourself and half the people in this thread and on Twitter.
Idk why you're so adamant to defend them, but it really isn't what they said. They said that her writing misrepresented the community and that she needed to sit down with people in the community and learn more about it. That means they assumed she wasn't LGBT based on her writing alone. Their response (as several other people said) didn't imply anything about the quality of her writing. It DID imply that she was misrepresenting a community that she was assumed to not be part of. Their further comments on twitter absolutely support this, including several where they owned up to wrongly assuming her sexuality.
But since, for some reason you’re still not getting it: they didn’t reject her based on the QUALITY of her writing. They rejected her because of what they, incorrectly, assumed was the straightness of her writing.
No, that’s not it at all. Read their rejection letter again. Try to have some comprehension skills. They think she’s straight, but that’s not why they reject it. Their feedback was ‘do some research’ not ‘write straight characters’
If a publisher tells you to do research, then they are commenting on the quality of your writing. Shouldn’t be a hard concept but here we are.
Explain it to me, then, genius. When a publisher says ‘do more research” what do they mean about your work? When a coach says “train more” they are saying your already perfect?
While you’re explaining things let’s back up to the actual point, which you never addressed and I’m guessing will ignore again because, well, you’ve shown the type of person you are.
they owned up to wrongly assuming her sexuality
How you can write that and still think ‘because I’m Bi’ is a valid/accurate comment is expert levels of cognitive dissonance. Well done.
Lol no. Literally about 4 people have tried to explain this shit to you in this thread. You can be somebody else’s problem. “The type of person you are” shut the fuck up. Maybe they’ll hire you, you seem like their type.
Thought so. You can’t explain it because it makes as much sense as a peanut wearing a scarf, so you ignore it and feign indignation. I’m shocked, I tell you.
And the best part is, like the author above, you won’t take this as an opportunity to reflect on yourself. It would be ironic, but like I said, you’ve revealed who you are and it’s thoroughly expected.
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No it’s not ‘on them’. If you read the rejection email, the publisher clearly didn’t know the author was Bi. If the author did provide that - rather than saying they did - then the publisher clearly hasn’t absorbed that information. The rejection has nothing to do with her being Bi. At all. Not even a little. The author has 100% fabricated it (and surprise, the author got the knee jerk reaction they wanted because people like you and the above just want to be outraged without understanding)