/lit/ - Literature

>>9405947
It seems fucking weird to describe this as "forcing" anything. They're a small publisher. Apparently the people in charge of this particular small pub want to publish shit about gender. Surely the point of having small publishers at all is so that people can publish niche stuff that they're interested in. Sucks for you that this particular small publisher doesn't line up with your niche interests, but it's not a bigger thing than that.

>>9405947
You could write something that seems to confirm with the rubric on it's face, but is in fact subversive to the narrative. Like do a story about a boy who wishes to be a woman, gets operations, falls in love with a boy, boy accepts him, but the tranny kills himself anyways.

>>9405947

That's one of those small pubs that has cosmopolitan pretensions that are actually self-defeating. Instead of acting as if they had the pick of all the writers in Scotland, and deciding which of them they like, they're way better off just saying "we want local talent." This'll let them find the talent early, instead of them trying to compete with all the huge publishers, who will snap up marketable, fashionable stuff like that quickly because that stuff gets easily represented.

That, or I guess if they're a niche publisher who primarily publishes stuff about that, then it makes sense: they just happen to be there. They also just happen to care about what everyone else cares about right now, but that's their prerogative. They better hope they have an interesting angle.

>>9405947
You should write a story about a man who is better at everything than a woman, including being a woman.

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>>9405951
Take your logic an fuck off, we're trying to get angry about something here

http://lovedeli.smackjeeves.com/comics/2418348/love-delicatessen0013/

webcomic of one of the two editors

Write a short story about gender that seems genuine to those brain dead mediocre cucks but is actually premium satire to anyone with an IQ above room temperature.

>>9405947
Why would gender not be relevant in a rainy town in Scotland?

>>9406186
...also The Wasp Factory is by a Scottish author who may well have lived in a small rainy town, and gender plays a very big role in that.

>Scotland

Well no surprise. You can't tell your women from your men, lad.

>>9405947
Write about Tralfamadorians, they know about all seven human genders.