![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
So I just received one of the most insulting personal rejections I've ever seen. Not insulting to me, but insulting to my story.
I was told that I should have made one of the characters in Reformatted Soul male.
Granted, I did strip out the non-binary pronouns to make the story more palatable for the market, but seriously. What the fuck?
I was told that I should have made one of the characters in Reformatted Soul male.
Granted, I did strip out the non-binary pronouns to make the story more palatable for the market, but seriously. What the fuck?
no subject
Date: 2012-07-19 01:28 pm (UTC)From:Basically SCREW YOU ASSHOLES.
no subject
Date: 2012-07-19 09:04 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-07-19 02:24 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-07-19 03:16 pm (UTC)From:This and a lot of other stories like it (plus some personal experience) are part of the reason I'm so afraid to write Slouching Toward. :(
no subject
Date: 2012-07-19 09:01 pm (UTC)From:I'm trying not to be too pissed off about it. He didn't like my story, and that's okay. He's also a sexist douchenozzle who doesn't think robots can have genders. (He put EDEN's gender in scare quotes in the rejection.) It's just really discouraging because I gave him the watered down version of the story.
no subject
Date: 2012-07-19 05:07 pm (UTC)From:Out of curiosity, did they specify which character should be male?
no subject
Date: 2012-07-19 09:03 pm (UTC)From:He said that EDEN should have been a 'male' bot (or Izzy). So he obviously had EDEN in mind, but would have settled for Izzy.
no subject
Date: 2012-07-20 02:55 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-07-25 06:34 am (UTC)From:I mean, I already blame media for 90% of gender stereotype problems (the other 10% is internalised stuff from earlier generations... but I think really, it's the media that gives us the idea to police things and what to be policing.) I want the media to stop it. When people stop the media from stopping it, I want to puke on their faces. (Because I'm just so girly like that.)