The world of literature is slowly being taken over by a new woke plague; the sensitivity reader. A moral gatekeeper employed by publishers to read through manuscripts questioning plotlines, characters and language for anything that might offend the usual victim groups, although its dressed up as vague wokey doublespeak of ‘authentic experiences’ and ‘speaking my truth’ Its a sort of way trying to pre-empt the inevitable outrage and cancel-proof the author.
Author Anthony Horowitz was a victim when the word ‘scalpel’ was cut from a passage in a recent book because some bedwetter felt that it had negative connotations to Native Americans and the historic practice of scalping their enemies. As Horowitz explains “Scalpel, of course , comes from the Latin word scapellus (from scalpere, to cut) and has nothing to do with scalping, which derives from the Middle English scalpe (top of the head).
But who cares? At least Creaking Knee and his mates weren’t offended.
So according to this logic Shakespeare wouldn’t have written Othello, Mary Shelly couldn’t have written Frankenstein or Robert Louis Stevenson understanding the lived experience of one-legged disabled pirate Long John Silver in Treasure Island.
In small victory for sanity, Dick Fiddlers recent international bestselling bonkbuster ‘Fifty Shades of Fiddler’….”Downton Abby meets Readers Wives” The Independent …..*****
And exciting newcomer…
Cunter of the Year, Miserable Northern Cunts ‘Dogging Diaries’…”Raw and gritty account of Stockport’s underbelly” New York Times…10/10 have evaded the woke Gestapo’s censorship and are available online and from all reputable bookshops after IsAC Publishing House refused to bow to pressure and issued a firm “FUCK OFF”.
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Nominated by: Liberal Liquidator