@cardboard@tiny.tilde.website mainly because most cis men, especially white cis men, reproduce much discriminatory bullshit unknowingly if they don't actively & constantly check their privilege, and they rarely do. so the chance that a book that COULD be good is tainted by this shit is too damn high, like e.g. the expanse.
@cardboard@tiny.tilde.website so i would read stuff written by a cis man if i knew for sure he had sensitivity readers, or was at least actively working to reduce his shit. otherwise the risk is too high of accidentally running into triggers & other stuff that makes me uncomfortable