Targeting / HarassmentThe TRA police are everywhere, even attacking random small publishing companies

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[–]8bitgay 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I had a big 5 editor take my current book to acquisitions but because it featured a trans character seemingly dying (this turns out not to be true but you don't know this until the end), they declined. They felt it was too risky that no one would read all the way to the end to find out it wasn't just another kill-your-trans-characters trope.

Gosh that is sad. And I don't remember this much care on Netflix writers that kill their gay characters for example.

Oh, we knew it had the potential to be a problem. We ran it by some early sensitivity readers, though, in retrospect the ones we ran it by were highly educated, and I hate to say it, but maybe we should have found some "everyday" readers.

That's hilarious. Yeah, actually educated people tend to get better reactions than the people who are only "educated" through social media.

apparently this commenter has a history of going after place that are transphobic (which, in general I wholeheartedly support...they are just wrong here because they didn't read the book xD)

I think OP is being way too optimistic in thinking that the person who harassed them now acted differently in other situations.

[–]Constantine[S] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Haha, yes, he goes on about picking sensitivity readers who are too "educated" several times in the thread. He really hit the nail on the head with that one, if unwittingly. A similar problem happened with the short story controversy I linked in my background comment.

And yes, I laughed out loud when I read that last part. There's no way this person was any more discerning in other attacks he or she has lodged. The whole post just had me thinking "you are so close, yet so far, from getting it, my friend." But then again, it's getting wrapped up in situations like this that made me peak. Maybe he'll get there. It sounds like an interesting book that comes really close to getting to the main issues with this movement.