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]

I am, incidentally, reading a book by a female Fred at the moment -- Fred Vargas, whose 'tec The Chalk Circle Man has just won the International Dagger. She's by day a French archaeologist whose full forename is Frederique.

(It's a true fab book, by the way. You'd love it.)

[thisplacehere.livejournal.com]

Someone at the Guardian agrees with you about Fred Vargas. I think I'll definitely be investigating (maybe not just yet, though; I've acquired more than enough new books lately...).

[realthog.livejournal.com]

That's got to be one of the most inaccurate Grauniad pieces of all time. The journalist gets the names of both central characters wrong (Adamsburg/Adamsberg, Dangland/Danglard) and also which boom introduces the Adamsberg: it's The Chalk Circle Man, even though this is the most recent to be translated, not the later novel Wash This Blood Clean From My Hands.

And this is just from a quick read of the article . . .

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Okay, I walked into that: for "boom" read "book". But I'm not getting paid Grauniad rates . . .

[thisplacehere.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, perhaps I shouldn't have linked to it...