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"Include anyone but white/male/hetero/christian/upper-middle-class-or-better people in your consideration"

Jewish and female authors were absolutely commonplace before the invention of the Internet.



They existed, yes. but there were about eight men on the bestseller list for every woman in the 60s: https://pudding.cool/2017/06/best-sellers/

(Switching to "counts" makes it more obvious)


And it seems especially odd to lump "christian" in there, anyone heard of a little studio called Metro Goldwyn Mayer?




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