| JRPGfan said: People should be hired on their merits, readers don't care about the race of whos reviewing the game. wrong! people that tweet notyourshield do. "People should be hired on their merits,..." I agree wiht this line. I still dont understand all this mess.... I mean if you read a game review, wtf does race of the person that wrote it matter? |
I'll link you to a whole new level of crazy.
The irony being that she is wearing a Dr Who shirt for the photo
Then I thought: What if I only read stories by a certain type of author? Instead of reading everything, I would only look at stories by women or people of color or LGBT writers. Essentially: no straight, cis, white males. The "Reading Only X Writers For A Year" a challenge is one every person who loves to read (and who loves to write) should take. You could, like Lilit Marcus, read only books by women or, like Sunili Govinnage, read only books by people of color. Or you could choose a different axis to focus on: books by trans men and women, books by people from outside the U.S. or in translation, books by people with disabilities. After a year of that, the next challenge would be to seek out books about or with characters that represent a marginalized identity or experience by any author. In addition to the identities listed above, I suggest: non-Christian religions or faiths, working class or poor, and asexual (as a start).
