Comment by jboynyc
8 years ago
That's a very good question. They call the series "Ideas for Progress," and yet all the authors are men based in the U.S., and everyone blurbing these books also appears to be a man based in the U.S.
Fine, okay, maybe sometimes the diversity argument gets annoying and stale, but seriously‽
There's a reason publishers exist. If they're good, they have enough experience to not be so myopic and tone-deaf.
“There's a reason publishers exist. If they're good, they have enough experience to not be so myopic and tone-deaf.”
That’s a stretch. Publishing has been dominated predominantly by white men for a long time.
True, but I think any decent publishing house in 2018 would look at its lineup of authors and, upon finding it all-male, would go back to the drawing board. Stripe did not do that. They ran with it.
Why should one judge any book by the gender or geography of the author, editor, or blurb writer?
I wasn't commenting on any one book, but observing a pattern about the entire series.
Isn’t your argument itself sexist? Judging the publishing company based on the sex of the publisher? Is there any actual content that offends you or is it just the people publishing it? Serious question.