editorial sexism

[realthog]

Among many great ones, there are some abominably stupid editors out there (I just hope too many people don’t too often regard me as one of the latter), but the experience related here by writer Bev Vincent must surely take the biscuit. It seems the editor concerned has a peculiarly ignorant, myopic and dimwittedly simplistic take on the range of human behaviour and is busily stamping it -- or attempting to stamp it -- on the rest of the world.

All power to Bev Vincent's elbow for refusing to allow such crap.

[[48-page thoggish rant omitted]]

Thanks to cussedness for posting the link I followed.

Comments

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"How is such an idiot an editor?"

One for whom the adjective "blithering" would seem to have been invented, I agree.

But what's perhaps as bad, on later reflection, is the behaviour of the editor who originally solicited and accepted the story -- just turning round and bending over, and apparently insisting her/his authors do likewise. In my day (insert phthisic wheeze here) one of the duties of editors was to stand up for their authors.

I kinda wish Vincent would name names, so we'd all know who to avoid . . .