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Would you ever hire a sensitivity reader to go over your writings, /lit/? I must admit, this shit boils my blood, I don't see why anyone deserves over $500 to help you walk on eggshells in a corrosive cultural environment.
That said, I'm more interested in what you guys have to say.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/mkm2ee/my_experience_hiring_a_sensitivity_reader/

>> No.17956254 [DELETED] 

>>17956238
Can someone post the mic meme

>> No.17956260

>>17956238
Absolutely not. My nonfiction work has esoteric racial theories that would be considered shocking even by your average /pol/fag.

>> No.17956263

>>17956238
I mean, if your primary goal as a writer is to write crowd-pleasers and best-sellers, then yeah, you have to be prepared to bend over backwards to appease the Twitter crowd. Otherwise, fuck no, its my fucking book and I wrote it the way I wrote it, 'nuff said

>> No.17956265

Stop pruning the thread, jannies. Nobody likes you and neither does anyone like your dangerous cocksucking ideology.

>> No.17956270
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>>17956238
No, cause I fear they would totally miss the subtext of what I'm writing and freak out instead about minor slurs or whatever. If Pynchon and the rest can get away with it, I see no reason to neuter myself

>> No.17956360

>>17956238
I'm eagerly waiting to hear back from the sensitivity reader that my publisher has a contract with. The primary plot of my manuscript concerns a political movement in the near future that wins overwhelming public support by promising to round up all the trannies and throw them in trash incinerators. I hope I treated the subject with enough sensitivity to avoid offending any marginalized groups.

>> No.17956382

>>17956238
I'm above our culture. I'm smarter, wiser, and mentally tougher than most people. I know what should and should not be said and everyone should accept my superiority in this. I need no one to censor me and my work is above any who would be filtered by mean language or hard truths.

>> No.17956385

>>17956238
This honestly feels like a tax write-off scam.

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>>17956360
it's a tough topic to write about but i'm sure they'll be eager to help you and increase the representation of their respective minority groups. good luck! don't forget to listen and be respectful - if they say something is marginalizing or hurtful, just agree, they would know better than you after all

>> No.17956412

How about a different angle on this topic: is this sensitivity reader thing a decent grift to get in on? If so, how? Do I need to have some kind of credentials to qualify? Can I just say I’m an attack chopper and get to do sensitivity reading for chopper representation?

>> No.17956423

>>17956412
ostensibly you have to chop your dick off but if you're well-connected then just the foreskin will work

>> No.17956426

I can’t believe how racist leftoids are

>> No.17956444

>>17956270
>Not hiring one only to have them chimp out and allow you to explain it in a way that shakes their beliefs

>> No.17956496
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>>17956238
Holy hell that is funny. How would hiring a sensitivity reader be of any literary value? That'd be like saying I identify as pure neurosis and anxiety and want to pay someone else to validate my triggers for my audience full of hair-trigger emotion flinging moron monkeys. A fucking result that would still trigger some mini-nuclear emotional meltdown because the editing staff missed an Oxford comma or some suit.

Like, shit, if it EVER got to that fucking level then I'd just hire a programmer to data mine trigger sites so it can auto-scan their bullshit opinions and let the computer popups it generates auto-fix my shit. It'd be like dealing with some crypto-vegans who only consume blanched vegetables because they think that if their food had any flavour they'd go to some special vegan hell forever so I would need to hire some chemists and gastrochefs to ensure only the blandest of results could ever grace their plate.

Riddle me this then you trigger-twits: How the fuck could anything or anyone ever DETRIGGER a fucking language like you'd debone a fucking fish? How do these people not understand their self-imposed hypocrisy and that exporting their intellectual and emotional diet onto others is the death of free expression itself? It's like they're Bayesian trigger filter fanatics that have declared word jihad on their rose-tinted glasses life filter and are due for a literary composition of such exquisite and graceful trigger content that it would give them an embolism as it "edged" their sensitivities so they stayed in a state of near-trigger, shock, and outrage until the inevitable logical punchline was delivered of how much of a detriment to artistic expression and culture they truly are.

Fuck you triggercucks and your belief that extreme emotional expression is memory worthy, let alone something that anyone outside of their deranged, self-induced emotional playground could OR should take seriously.

>>17956263
Or just write female stroke fiction. Twitter is not a complex audience.

>> No.17956523

>>17956238
Is this satire?

>> No.17956530

>>17956260
Explain

>> No.17956547

>>17956496
Good post.

>> No.17956599

>>17956496
>ctrl-f
>nowhere in your entire post do you mention the word "nigger"
sorry but i didn't read it

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>>17956599
How else would I have been able to bait you if not by triggering you via omission of your special snowflake trigger word?

>> No.17956771

>>17956523
No.

>> No.17956780

>>17956382
Reads like someone using a 4chan post as some self-affirming mirror to keep them focused. Or like a mantra.

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>>17956412
You could say that having any sort of qualifications, references, or credentials being validated or verified as one of your primary triggers to your sensitivity and simply go into a full blown meltdown about how your culture feels threatened or targeted by a lack of spiritual trust if they don't just take the mere fact that you applied as every proof they need to hire you as a sensitivity expert at the most senior level.

Bonus points for then simply identifying your gender as the letter i, then listing your pronouns as me/you/them/they, ensuring a complete psychological destruction of the editorial team as they try to tiptoe around you getting triggered by being the living, breathing personification of English trigger-grammar.

Literally nothing would get your approval except for your own pieces submitted in your special 'trigger-free English' language that follows special rules that you don't even share with your general audience because muh superior cultural imperative. Meanwhile the reject pile would literally be a fucking wasteland of your trigger explosion commentary and vitriole as to why your gatekeeping is somehow saving the human race from extinction while simultaneously serving as your personal literary validation dildo that you get off on as you eye it with sweaty heaving gasps every now and then as the need to stabilise yourself grows with every new submission to your sensitivity inbox.

>What sort of human genuinely would consider this position ACTUALLY valuable to society or personally fulfilling anyway? Would only make sense to me if getting triggered was somehow a personal fetish.

>> No.17956942

Can I send my story into 4chin to make it better, aka more racist?

>> No.17956948

>>17956382
lmao absolute faggot

>> No.17956953

>>17956942
Racism is just trigger-baiting things one identifies as other. Taybot already made that kind of language so would be kind of redundant as you could never be more racist than AI.

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>>17956238
>[she] had nice things to say about my magic system

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>>17956961
>[entity] provided me with words that I could interpret as external validation to continue as those words promoted me to do so!

>> No.17957065

>>17956423
Cool it with the anti-semitism.