> Known as sensitivity readers, or sometimes authenticity readers, consultants like Sally are a growing part of publishing, hired to correct the pre-publication missteps of authors who don't share the same traits—or "lived experience," to use a favored buzzword—as their characters.
God, what kind of a horrible person would take up such a job. Jesus Christ I mean just don't publish the book don't hire some couch sjw to "fix" it.
I guess the author can still choose to not publish
>God, what kind of a horrible person would take up such a job.
Take a job as an editor? That is all this person is doing. It is something that publishers have done forever except this editor has a more narrow scope of what they are editing.
It doesn’t sound like those “sensitivity readers” are editors, more like some weaponized Twitter outrage mob.
I get that the publishers want to preemptively strike down / appease those outragers, but Jesus Christ, to like reading and to become a full-time “holier than thought”-er. This is so depressing
Lots of people want to work in publishing, especially middle-class English Lit graduates who are most likely to be politically aligned with this sort of editing work.
> Known as sensitivity readers, or sometimes authenticity readers, consultants like Sally are a growing part of publishing, hired to correct the pre-publication missteps of authors who don't share the same traits—or "lived experience," to use a favored buzzword—as their characters.
God, what kind of a horrible person would take up such a job. Jesus Christ I mean just don't publish the book don't hire some couch sjw to "fix" it. I guess the author can still choose to not publish