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Since someone thought that a post where I was talking about the percentage of the authors that published a teen book last year who were straight white American males was making things look worse by being to narrow, here's a bit of the broader numbers from my dataset. (Teen fiction only because that's what my job is - teen librarian and author of fiction for teens. The Atlantic article going around has some data from a lady who did similar analysis for this year on middle grade protagonists, which broadly matches what my data shows, though she was looking at protagonists. Protagonists were part of my dataset, but the topic at hand is the authors.) The short version is 17.6% of the books were by men, 75.9% by women. (There are also anonymous authors and nonbinary authors.) LGBT+ data was based on the authors openly talking about their sexuality in places like their Goodreads bio, and just about all of them were from America. Personally I think that the authors from other countries just don't talk about it as much is more likely than there aren't any, so for LGBT+ authors I'm looking at American authors only. 31.9% of the male authors were GBT+, 7.1% of the women. For America specifically, 116 male authors, 602 female, so 2/3 of all the books, and men were 16.2% of the American authors.

Troy Jackson's entire career feels like a normal guy who just kept falling ass backwards into roles. >Be a rural guy with an associates degree working 80 hour weeks >Get pissed that Canadian workers are crossing the border and undercutting your wages >Run for state legislature as an independent because you're pissed >Win in an upset >Join the Democratic Party after they vote for your bill supporting collective bargaining rights for loggers >Keep winning re-election >Eventually get elected by your peers to be minority leader >Then become Senate President when you retake the Senate >Run for governor, lose >Senate candidate drops out >Run for that. Win nomination. >Have 100 days to beat Susan Collins >Beat Susan Collins

What’s one thing authors do in romance books that immediately puts you off?

This is a solved problem with already existing classics: > Tom Clancy > Michael Crichton > Matt Christopher > Louis L’Amour > JRR Tolkien > Isaac Asimov > Jack Landon Don’t over complicate it. Retvrn.

Literary scholars consider Jane Austen the equal of Dickens, Milton and Cervantes.

Need some good modern scifi or fantasy books that aren’t trash. No quirk chungus No irony No whedonisms No le epic maymays No pop culture references PLEASE SEND HELP.

Girls read books with boy protagonists all the time. If men and boys can't read books with a girl protagonist, could it be because they think girls are lesser than boys? And therefore the problem isn't the girls in the books, it's their own fucked up thought process.

Wrt the boys & books discourse, while it's undeniable that there is some contempt towards boys and that they are underserved by the modern literary establishment, it seems to me that a decline in readership was inevitable for boys, and the present situation reflects that. 1/x

q.e.d.

🚨 NEW: The Church of England has warned that the Government’s proposed ban on conversion therapy could "criminalise prayer" Under the proposed law, people could face up to 5 years in prison for attempting to change or suppress someone's sexual orientation or gender identity

Es wäre an der Zeit, diesen Zausel rauszuwerfen.

Um grande agradecimento aos fandoms e aos jovens do Roblox do Brasil. Eu sou fã de vocês ❤️ #LiveDoExercitoExplode

Have you ever considered the possibility that China's merit based political system, that has produced the most rapid increase in living standards in human history, is actually a more advanced form of governance than performative, reality-show style elections?

Students have occupied Kassel University after it got rid of its anti-militarism clause so they can collaborate with weapons manufacturers

Köpfe wie El-Sayed sind deutlich gefährlicher als Trump, der hierzulande ohnehin viel zu undiffernziert gesehen wird.

🇩🇪🇪🇺L'Allemagne continue son réarmement nationaliste, sans la moindre coordination européenne. Après avoir sous-investi pendant des années dans son armée, l'Allemagne a brusquement décidé, en 2024, de se réarmer compulsivement en ne faisant appel qu'aux entreprises nationales. Quitte à rompre de nombreux contrats et projets européens : annulation d'une commande de six frégates au néerlandais Damen Naval, alors que les constructions avaient déjà commencé ; retrait du projet d'avion de combat SCAF et de char MGCS ; opposition à la constellation européenne IRIS2 de satellites basse orbite... Ce nationalisme industriel est une honte en soi (surtout quand on se rappelle que la France a mis fin au contrat FAMAS pour les HK allemands, sans jamais recevoir la moindre commande de son "partenaire"). Mais encore plus préoccupant : l'Allemagne compte renforcer toutes ses branches (terre, marine...), alors qu'il serait judicieux de favoriser une spécialisation à l'échelle européenne, en fonction des avantages comparatifs de chacun. Par exemple : le naval et l'aviation pour la France, les blindés pour l'Allemagne, l'infanterie pour la Pologne. Ce n'est que logique : aucun pays n'est au niveau de la France en matière de technologies navales et aéronautiques. À l'inverse, l'Allemagne a de sérieux arguments en matière de chars. Mais non, l'Allemagne a décidé de dépenser dans sa marine sans compter. Et surtout sans compter sur ses alliés. Ses ambitions « Zielbild Marine 2035+ » profiteront aux "champions" allemands TKMS et Rheinmetall. Le réarmement allemand fait fi de tous ses partenaires, et ne répond à aucune logique européenne. L'Allemagne privilégie soit son industrie nationale, soit des fournisseurs américains, plutôt que de construire une véritable base industrielle et technologique de défense européenne intégrée. Son objectif est-il vraiment de dissuader la Russie, ou d'écraser ses partenaires pour devenir le champion européen de l'export d'armements ?