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Ryan Leeds ([personal profile] ryanleeds) wrote2012-07-19 04:44 am
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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?
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[personal profile] yetregressing 2012-07-19 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
fff I would like to light them on fire. Plus I'd like to read the story WITH the non-binary pronouns (I like to see myself represented in media; publishers tend to disagree.)

Basically SCREW YOU ASSHOLES.
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[personal profile] ryanleeds 2012-07-19 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll get you a real copy of Reformatted Soul someday.

[personal profile] zaluzianskya 2012-07-19 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Fucking rude.
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[personal profile] thiefofvoices 2012-07-19 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh. I wish I was surprised. D: (Mind if I ask where it was? Though um, PM me the answer if you don't want to air it on the blog.)

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. :(
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[personal profile] ryanleeds 2012-07-19 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
PM'd.

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.
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[personal profile] squeemu 2012-07-19 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Arrrrgh. I'm also curious where it was, in case I ever think of short stories ideas to write. (Also okay with a PM instead.)

Out of curiosity, did they specify which character should be male?
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[personal profile] ryanleeds 2012-07-19 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
PM'd.

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.

[personal profile] rosarum 2012-07-20 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
That is deeply insulting, ugh. What a jackass.
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[personal profile] coffeevore 2012-07-25 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
Barf.

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.)
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