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[ryanleeds]

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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[yetregressing]

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.

[zaluzianskya]

Fucking rude.

[thiefofvoices]

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. :(

[squeemu]

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?

[rosarum]

That is deeply insulting, ugh. What a jackass.

[coffeevore]

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.)