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In this day and age, ANYONE can publish a book. Just search Amazon and you will see some of the self-published trash there. I am confident that good authors will be read, regardless of their level of tan.

"it's bizarre to conclude that female writers write in such a markedly different way then men, isn't it? Or not?"

I'm so damned tired of reading about this crap, but it seems to be following me from site to site. Why is it on Gizmodo? Why was it linked on io9? No more cultures, genders, races, please. No more culture wars or endless bun fights over "diversity." Maybe people are talking about this issue elsewhere, but there's no

Do the people proposing this know that the world's best-selling novelist is female? In fact, the top three best-selling novelists are, and 5 of the top ten novelists are. I understand the principle, but in terms of representation novelists do pretty well (likely because personal character traits have much less

"The Great Internet Debate Over Not Reading White Men"

In the game of identity politics, everyone loses.

If someone wants to limit their reading list who am I to tell them what to do.

Actually, excluding white men is the single easiest way to win a Social Justice Warrior cookie.

See? This is more helpful. I have a visceral reaction against being told what not to do. There's only one piece of negative direction you can give — don't give negative direction.
Tell me what awesome books are out there I SHOULD be reading because they're awesome, not, vaguely, what books I shouldn't be because of

How about I just read whomever I please, and everyone else can read whomever they please, and we can all stop being such jackasses about it?

It's actually the exact dictionary definition of racism. Now, if they had simply said, "People need to read more minority authors," absolutely, that's fair. "People need to not read white male authors," that is, again, the exact definition of racism and it isn't okay.

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling is pretty hilarious (and she is the narrator for the audiobook!)

here is a shocking idea, read what you are interested in. Choose a book because you are interested in its content, not because of the author's identity.

wait....Americans read?

WHAT? No ... racism is racism — period. Just like sexism is sexism, period. ANY type of exclusionary behavior based on race is racism. Even if it is done for a good reason, IT'S STILL RACISM. We can do better than this — there is no need to be exclusionary. How about we reward people for being inclusive instead?

Lumping all white male authors into one monolithic group is the peak of ignorance. The chasm between Truman Capote and J.D. Salinger is grand canyon sized, as is the gap between Georges Betaille and William Faulkner. Also pretending that privileged white women have significantly different views from white men is

If you think pizza is a cookie you should probably re-evaluate your life.

or maybe you should just read without giving a shit who wrote them.

There are those of us who care about actively trying to make the world a more equitable place.

This whole movement sounds racist and sexist. If they care so much, then start using pen names and don't put author photographs or bios on the book jacket/backcover.