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Some Young Women Still Obey The Old Scripts
2023 closes with an online review “bombing” scandal full of backstabbing, manipulation, racism, internalized misogyny, classism, all the “good” stuff.
When I was young, I remember a lot of people expressing feelings that they’d been born in the wrong time period. Usually this took the form of “I want to be the princess at the RenFaire” or “I would have been a conquering knight!”
But now I really do I wish I’d been born in the future. Because the world that today’s best young people are building feels much more comfortable to me than the old ways.
Yet even so: “not all young people.” Some are still obeying old, evil scripts of harming, denigrating, and exploiting others to benefit themselves in short-term, material ways.
Last week, a 2024 debut female sci fi writer, Cait Corrain, lost her first novel contract and has been dropped by her agent because since 2022, she established a series of fake social media accounts and put false one-star slam reviews of other debut novelists scheduled to be published around the same time. She didn’t go after just any debut novelists, she focused on diverse women who were also publishing first sci-fi or fantasy books in early 2024.
