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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 17 February 2013 08:38:12PM 0 points [-]

As randomness* would have it, I just ran into an example of women doing that to a woman for her fiction.

Just read the article. Given the information presented my prior is that Jamaica Kincaid got her job due to (possibly informal) affirmative action, i.e., the New Yorker felt like they needed a black female writer to be "diverse".

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 18 February 2013 04:17:35PM 3 points [-]

You don't know how many black female authors they've got, and you haven't read any of her work.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 19 February 2013 01:19:30AM 0 points [-]

True. This is my prior for "black female author gets extremely fast tracked" and the article didn't say anything that would make me update away from it.

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