Sensitivity Readers. Really

[Tahuyaman]

Political correctness has turned a new corner. Sensitivity readers. I can honestly say that I did not see this one coming.

https://qz.com/950127/sensitivity-re...sive-material/

In a national culture newly aware of micro-aggressions and offensive speech, what you say can easily strike the wrong tone. One increasingly common solution among US book publishers: Hire someone to be offended for you. “Sensitivity readers,” starting at a small fee of $250 a manuscript, read unpublished works and ask, “Would my community find this disrespectful? Does this sound authentic?”

[stjames1_53]

look out Mark Twain...they'll be coming for Life on the Mississippi and Huck Finn....................lord what a bunch of sorry-assed losers.

[Refugee]

Little Red Riding Hood

from Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner. Copyright 1994 by James Finn Garner. Published by Macmillan Publishing USA.

There once was a young person named Red Riding Hood who lived with her mother on the edge of a large wood. One day her mother asked her to take a basket of fresh fruit and mineral water to her grandmother's house--not because this was womyn's work, mind you, but because the deed was generous and helped engender a feeling of community. Furthermore, her grandmother was not sick, but rather was in full physical and mental health and was fully capable of taking care of herself as a mature adult.


So Red Riding Hood set off with her basket through the woods. Many people believed that the forest was a foreboding and dangerous place and never set foot in it. Red Riding Hood, however, was confident enough in her own budding sexuality that such obvious Freudian imagery did not intimidate her.
On the way to Grandma's house, Red Riding Hood was accosted by a wolf. who asked her what was in her basket. She replied, "Some healthful snacks for my grandmother, who is certainly capable of taking care of herself as a mature adult."


The wolf said, "You know, my dear, it isn't safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone."


Red Riding Hood said, "I find your sexist remark offensive in the extreme, but I will ignore it because of your traditional status as an outcast from society, the stress of which has caused you to develop your own, entirely valid, worldview. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must be on my way."


Red Riding Hood walked on along the main path. But, because his status outside society had freed him from slavish adherence to linear, Western-style thought, the wolf knew a quicker route to Grandma's house. He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself. Then, unhampered by rigid, traditionalist notions of what was masculine or feminine, he put on Grandma's nightclothes and crawled into bed.
Red Riding Hood entered the cottage and said, "Grandma, I have brought you some fatfree, sodium-free snacks to salute you in your role of a wise and nurturing matriarch."


From the bed, the wolf said softly, "Come closer, child, so that I might see you."
Red Riding Hood said, "Oh, I forgot you are as optically challenged as a bat. Grandma, what big eyes you have!"
"They have seen much, and forgiven much, my dear."
"Grandma, what a big nose you have, only relatively, of course, and certainly attractive in its own way."
"It has smelled much, and forgiven much, my dear."
"Grandma, what big teeth you have!"


The wolf said, "I am happy with who I am and what I am," and leaped out of bed. He grabbed Red Riding Hood in his claws, intent on devouring her. Red Riding Hood screamed, not out of alarm at the wolf's apparent tendency toward crossdressing, but because of his willful invasion of her personal space.
Her screams were heard by a passing woodchopperperson (or log-fuel technician, as he preferred to be called). When he burst into the cottage, he saw the melee and tried to intervene. But as he raised his ax, Red Riding Hood and the wolf both stopped.


"And just what do you think you're doing?" asked Red Riding Hood.
The woodchopper-person blinked and tried to answer, but no words came to him.
"Bursting in here like a Neanderthal, trusting your weapon to do your thinking for you!" she exclaimed. "Sexist! Speciesist! How dare you assume that womyn and wolves can't solve their own problems without a man's help!"

When she heard Red Riding Hood's impassioned speech, Grandma jumped out of the wolf's mouth, seized the woodchopperperson's ax, and cut his head off. After this ordeal, Red Riding Hood, Grandma, and the wolf felt a certain commonality of purpose. They decided to set up an alternative household based on mutual respect and cooperation, and they lived together in the woods happily ever after.

[donttread]

Political correctness has turned a new corner. Sensitivity readers. I can honestly say that I did not see this one coming.

https://qz.com/950127/sensitivity-re...sive-material/

In a national culture newly aware of micro-aggressions and offensive speech, what you say can easily strike the wrong tone. One increasingly common solution among US book publishers: Hire someone to be offended for you. “Sensitivity readers,” starting at a small fee of $250 a manuscript, read unpublished works and ask, “Would my community find this disrespectful? Does this sound authentic?”

what if someone writes a book which degrades sensitiity writers? Some author should do that for kicks

[texan]

Thank goodness we live in the USA. Where we can tell people to grow up. This behavior is how most of Europe was ruined. Go read on how much they wish they fought PC when it came there and what its done to them culturally. Most of Americans are different. Bunch of stupid academics pushing this stuff. Trophies for everyone because that is the way the world works, oh wait no it doesn't.

[Chris]

What it leads to is everyone afraid to speak for fear it might just offend someone.

[jigglepete]

This is truly goofy imo...but many decades ago an author put out Father Gander stories to offset the horrible Mother Goose (sarcasm) poems. Of course being"Peter Peter pumpkin eater" I did appreciate the non abusive masoginistic version... Peter Peter pumpkin eater had a wife and wanted to keep her. He treated her with fair respect and there she stayed and hugged his neck.". Much better than the original imo, but I was never offended anyway.

[The Xl]

Ah man. And I'm not even 30 yet. I have a lifetime of increasingly more preposterous nonsense like this to deal with. I shudder to think what stuff like this is going to look like in 10 years.

[Mini Me]

What it leads to is everyone afraid to speak for fear it might just offend someone.

It hasn't stopped me from irritating the piss out of Rethuglitards!

I deserve a trophy!

[Tahuyaman]

what if someone writes a book which degrades sensitiity writers? Some author should do that for kicks

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