I almost said "it was implied," but that suggests that it was your intention to imply it.
Anyway. Saying "I must read some female authors" is a quota, if a particularly loosely-defined one. It's only a "loaded term" in the context of starting an argument about it, I find.
But I can certainly understand why he might have taken that implication from your post. So suggesting that it springs from some sort of deficit in his character... well, it strikes me as sort of ingenuous.
Anyway. Saying "I must read some female authors" is a quota, if a particularly loosely-defined one. It's only a "loaded term" in the context of starting an argument about it, I find.
But I can certainly understand why he might have taken that implication from your post. So suggesting that it springs from some sort of deficit in his character... well, it strikes me as sort of ingenuous.
Not a "deficit" at all, but at worst a missed opportunity is what I would have thought in such cases. That and I like to occasionally employ "bandwagon" techniques to sway people from time to time
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This board is severely lacking in discussion of female authors
12/09/2009 08:11:46 AM
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I think what you mean is this board is lacking in discussion of lesser-known authors...
12/09/2009 10:49:56 AM
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While part of that is true, part of it really deals with a thought when I glanced through the posts
12/09/2009 10:55:07 AM
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The world is severely lacking in famous female authors.
12/09/2009 02:53:03 PM
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Wanna bet?
13/09/2009 08:23:14 AM
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Incorrect.
15/09/2009 04:14:06 PM
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You might want to edit that...
15/09/2009 04:40:32 PM
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Actually, most of those authors are talked about on other boards and blogs
16/09/2009 12:22:46 AM
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... That doesn't actually change the truth-value of his statement. *NM*
16/09/2009 05:31:30 AM
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Is KJ Parker actually a woman?
16/09/2009 12:27:35 AM
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Probably.
16/09/2009 04:51:57 AM
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It is not uncommon in the publishing industry to pull tricks like that.
16/09/2009 11:19:04 AM
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female authors
12/09/2009 10:28:12 PM
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I discovered Morgan Llywellyn when I was in my late teens/early 20s
13/09/2009 08:24:15 AM
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None. Why in the world would you place a quota on gender? *NM*
12/09/2009 10:46:45 PM
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Who said anything about "quotas"?
13/09/2009 08:11:21 AM
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It can be inferred.
14/09/2009 12:45:18 AM
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it can only be inferred if you confuse the necessity employed.
19/09/2009 06:49:17 AM
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Mm.
19/09/2009 07:13:27 AM
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Everyone knows women can't write! They are by far inferior to men!
13/09/2009 01:42:16 AM
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Connie Willis, Susanna Clarke, Diana Wynne Jones, Megan Whalen Turner (to start with)
13/09/2009 01:47:17 PM
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I read mostly scfi these days and there just are not that many new female scfi writers
14/09/2009 04:28:31 PM
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Jaine Fenn and Liz Williams are two pretty decent recently-emerging SF writers. *NM*
15/09/2009 04:15:40 PM
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This post is severely lacking in discussion of male authors. *NM*
15/09/2009 04:42:23 PM
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