A couple of weeks ago, I read a particularly long run of submissions with particularly unfortunate anti-woman aspects. All sorts of unpleasant things were done and said to the female characters. It upset me quite a bit; I wrote a longish rant about it, but never quite got that into postable shape. (Partly because I realized that I was lumping too many different things together under the \"anti-woman\" label. But still, I sure am sick of stories about nice men who kill their wives, and stories about nice men who are forced against their will to rape women, and so on.)<\/p>\n
Anyway, it occurred to me that we could save ourselves and the authors some time by having content-related checkboxes as part of the submission form.<\/p>\n
We would, of course, never actually do this. But I got a certain amount of grim satisfaction from writing up this example, so I figured I'd post it here for humor value. (Wrote this a couple weeks ago, kept waffling about when\/whether to post it.)<\/p>\n
I mean, y'know, it's funny as long as I don't think too hard about it. If I do, then the idea that such a form could be useful, even as a joke, makes me kinda sad and disappointed and angry.<\/p>\n
Here's the example question:<\/p>\n
Does your story contain only one prominent female character? If so, please check the reasons that you included that character and made her female:<\/p>\n