Collateral Damage
June 23, 2014 7:13 AM Subscribe
"What it comes to is this: most women [writers] who are now over about 40 have been told their whole lives to be good, to keep their heads down, to keep on working away quietly and to wait their turn. And now, within [the science fiction and fantasy field], at the point when their male contemporaries are celebrated, these same women are being told, No, it's too late for you, you don't matter enough; that space is needed. Get out of the way.
We're collateral damage. If we debut later, we may well find ourselves declared over, irrelevant, not worth reading even before the print is dry on our 1st book. If we've been in the industry for years, we find ourselves forgotten or dismissed and our innovations and talents and insights attributed to others (all too often male others)."
We're collateral damage. If we debut later, we may well find ourselves declared over, irrelevant, not worth reading even before the print is dry on our 1st book. If we've been in the industry for years, we find ourselves forgotten or dismissed and our innovations and talents and insights attributed to others (all too often male others)."
This post was deleted for the following reason: As a single-link Op/Ed blog post sort of thing, this isn't really great as a post about an interesting topic. Maybe put together something a bit more in depth? -- taz
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From Bestseller to Bust (Guardian.co.uk)
Rather than there being some gatekeeper having a gender agenda, you might find that increasingly, musicians, writers, actors, producers, commercial artists, and more and more of society are finding the world turning into a very sharp pyramid with very little room at the pointy top, and the bulk of the mass of the pyramid underwater where it is nearly impossible to make a living.
More and more of our economy and cultural landscape is turning into this "rock star" economic model. I think publishing is suffering more from this than from some patriarchy.
posted by C.A.S. at 7:20 AM on June 23, 2014 [1 favorite]