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Niall ([personal profile] coalescent) wrote2007-08-29 10:18 am

Who's missing?

[Poll #1046886]

Actual answer here. Vote before you click.

EDIT: See also [livejournal.com profile] jlassen's two entries, and Andrew Wheeler here.

FURTHER EDIT: Commentary from [livejournal.com profile] rosefox here and [livejournal.com profile] cristalia here.

Re: The real answer

[identity profile] jamiam.livejournal.com 2007-08-30 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Though I do know quite a few people who would be bothered by that.

But regardless of whether or not you are bothered by a lack of inclusion of your particular minority group, apparently there are quite a lot of people out there who ARE bothered by this particular exclusion. And we can argue all day about whether or not they should be upset about it--the point is, they ARE upset. And I can pretty much guarantee that they will continue to be upset about it the future, and that they will actually in increase in their representative fraction.

The job of the publisher selling a book is not to say: you female SF readers shouldn't be upset! The job of a publisher is to decide whether or not the existence of a large number of angry female SF readers actually impacts their sales.