Pronouns In Reading New Novels?

#1

Have to say it is absolute insanity!
I’m reading the 4th novel in Dan Moren’s [he/they] Galactic Cold War Series.
This one; has the new pronouns.
Where he or she - is also, simultaneously - they or they.
What idiot thought this up[generative AI?]?

Do author’s have to comply?
Either use the idiot pronoun version, or the publishing house disowns you?

There should be a warning: this novel has gone to the pronouns’ dark side.

Not only have I lost authors to death; I’m losing them now, to wokeism.

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#2

@Robert_Barricklow
If it is al that confusing to you, try gaming. The new batch of games teach you how to behave correctly and how to punish yourself if you make a mistake.

That pronoun virus has dug in like a tic and is a religion within a big cult that oh for the last ten years have been very busy.

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#3

@Robert_Barricklow, @neru Aw, c’mon guys! I am still working on a response to that vaccine thread and now this.

Please slow down; I think slower than I write. :slightly_smiling_face:

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#5

Changing the language, the pronouns, the culture, the gaming, the
substantially equivalent foods[Bugs R Food]; hell, even changing the genome!
Pronouns, are just like the modern-day music; there to irritate you, to no end.
Pure nonsense; like their Rentier political/economic system.
Moving towards a technocratic totalitarian feudalism;
all being designed to change you; in body, spirit, and soul.
Now who in their right mind would fight for a nation that is trying to kill… YOU?
Ironically, the only survivor in this; is the pronoun “you”.

Who would fight for the globalist?
The NWO?
A generative AI robot?
It’s certainly dumb enough too.
It’s certainly programmed too.
And, it certainly fits to a “t”; the “they” pronoun.

Hence, “They” ain’t “you”; in any tense and/or sense of the pronoun.

#6

… wait for it, wait for it … “They” have arrived at a definition for women … they are ‘non-transgender women’ to refer to biological females …

A World View is a terrible thing to waste.

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#7

Some time ago, I learned there was a new position in book publishing: the “sensitivity reader.” Yes, that’s a real thing. Apparently, it’s someone who actually gets paid to read through manuscripts and make sure there’s no wording that could hurt a woke reader’s feelings. (I’m pretty sure the cost for that – just like the cost of copyediting, proofreading, and indexing – gets deducted from the author’s royalties.) And yes, if the publishing house has incorporated woke-speak into its house style, the author normally has to comply if he/she/they want/wants his/her/their book published by that publisher.

I used to copyedit books . . . I’m glad I don’t anymore.

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#8

Sanitizing agents; adding paid insults, to Dudley-Do-Right injuries.
The digital kindling, is burning brightly.
Do the publishing houses, advertise for these cleaning agents?
Are publishing house; cleaning house?
Have to ridicule the hell out of this suicidal behavior.
Nobody’s buying.
Well…,
nobody human.

#9

I don’t know how much they’re in demand, but it’s a real thing:

Excerpt (emphasis added):

The events in question began happily: my client received a Big Five contract for a book about his time as a Marine sniper during the Vietnam War, when he was 17. The original manuscript (written with the assistance of a coauthor) told his story in the context of its time and place, including florid verbatim language and descriptions that wouldn’t be appropriate in other settings, then or now. Historical authenticity and truthfulness were the author’s priorities. . . .

I’ve since learned that sensitivity reads are a recent and potentially powerful layer of scrutiny some books are subjected to. Evidently, they have been in use by some children’s publishers for several years. . . .

Any manuscript can be potentially infected with inadvertently offensive content that serves no meaningful purpose. For instance, I represent many older backlist titles that possess unacceptable language by current standards but that, when written, seemed innocent. We make an effort to discover and rewrite those segments without distorting the (often deceased) author’s meaning. . . .

Under the threat of having his book deal terminated, my client was forced to meaningfully modify his manuscript to accommodate a five-page document full of subjective complaints about how the Vietnam War was fought by the author and his co-combatants, the unfiltered descriptions of his horrific experiences, and the unsavory language used by the mostly very young men who were there on behalf of their country. . . . No appeals or rebuttals were allowed. My author reluctantly complied in full.

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#10

These resulting sensitive product reads, should thus be categorized as:
Children books.

Approved by the State, for States’ children.

I’ll stick with the adult books.
With or without, State approval.

If the book’s been sanitized, there should be a warning.
Or, at the very least, labeled for “under 8 years old”.

Even though many of those youngsters, might be offended by State censorship.

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