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It was just a very -- they were clearly very established authors, although I didn't recognize any of them. I don't know if you saw the tumblr post going around a few months ago about Joss Whedon and his particular brand of feminism getting compared to a doctor who used to be really good at surgery, but never did anything to keep up with the new methods, so now the patients come in and say "but why are you doing this super-old and horrendously archaic and barbaric thing, medicine's like twenty years past that, read a peer-reviewed journal or something" and the doctor says BUT I'M A FANTASTIC SURGEON LOOK AT ALL THESE TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD THINGS THAT SAY SO. (... the post was perhaps somewhat better phrased than what I just vomited at you; apologies.) It kind of reminded me of that, to be honest; I think what they were saying was probably very relevant when they first broke into publishing, but like. Don't hold up the One Woman Who Can Do Shit On A Ship Full Of Men as the end-all be-all of THIS IS HOW I DO FEMINISM PROUD, MY SISTERS and expect me not to be scowling at the stage and sending cranky texts to friends.

I am notoriously bad at Noticing Things, so I had 100% missed the Beauty and the Beast thing, although now you've mentioned it I can totally see it. But oh, so many wasted opportunities.