The AWFLs Have Killed Publishing

That is Affluent White Female Liberals, in case you're confused. From Echo Chamberlain: Progressive White Women Have Killed Literary Zeitgeist

Progressive white women now dominate publishing at every level, from agents to publishers to marketing to readers. We live in a timeline of Booktok, romantasy and cliterature. You have to go into bookstores wearing those heavy goggles they put on during the atom bomb test in Oppenheimer, otherwise your retinas will be burnt out by harshly colourful book covers.

Here is a bit, referencing one of the current crop of insane offerings.

It’s doubtful that a male protagonist describing morally empty promiscuity as intuitive and healthy would get past the desks of literary agents who are urban progressive white women in their twenties to forties. Broader US publishing, reviewing, and agency staff were reported as 72.5% female and white. And to be clear, the novel All Fours isn’t put across as ironic or meta, this is the broad sentiment of the book. The narrator is very careful to not commit microaggressions against black people or other minorities, but when it comes to fidelity or empathy for her lacklustre husband – well, whatever.

I miss civilization.

If you prefer video, this is the Echo Chamberlain video on the same subject. Progressive White Women Have Ruined Fiction