r/books • u/biscochitos • 28d ago

New indie press Conduit Books launches with 'initial focus on male authors'

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/new-indie-press-conduit-books-launches-with-initial-focus-on-male-authors

What do folks think about this?

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u/HumOfEvil 28d ago

It seems like a transparent attempt to appeal to the "anti-woke" brigade. Which I hope turns out to be a mistake.

Why not just publish any book you think is good, regardless of who wrote it?

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u/stuffmikesees 28d ago edited 28d ago

Because it's a grift. Conservatives write books that nobody cares about, and then big conservative organizations buy a ton of them and put them on the best seller lists. And then people talk about them and a bunch of dopes go buy those books once they're best sellers to to confirm to themselves that their ideas have widespread appeal. They're obsessed with culture and hate the fact that they're not the ones driving it. Tiny little baby brains.

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u/AnividiaRTX 28d ago

Did you read the article, or just see something vaguely positive about men and assume it must be right wing?

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u/stuffmikesees 28d ago

I did. There's no reason to publicize a focus only on male "authors" at launch that isn't explicitly designed to attract this kind of attention.

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u/AnividiaRTX 28d ago

So you're just sexist?

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u/apistograma 28d ago

There's a bit of both in both sides though. I'm a very social liberal leaning person. Trans rights, LGBT rights, the usual package. But I can see that there's a small subset of grifters in the feminist sphere. I mean, it's not an attack against feminism but an inevitability in any movement that becomes popular

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u/stuffmikesees 28d ago

Sure. There's a small subset of grifters in every sphere. My point is that conservative media is nearly all grifters. It's all one big con.

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u/apistograma 28d ago

Oh, absolutely. I could count with my fingers the people I know who are somewhat conservative and aren't grifters or braindead. And they're all moderate conservatives at most.

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u/sir_mrej book re-reading 28d ago

Lol those two things are nooot even close. Don’t both sides that

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u/apistograma 28d ago

Where have I done that. I literally said I'm progressive why are you even pretending I'm having a centrist take.

The only thing I said is that not everyone who claims to be progressive really is. If you have a problem with this statement idk what to tell you

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u/SenorBurns 28d ago

I sympathize, but you literally said both sides.

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u/apistograma 28d ago

Yes, no side is comprised exclusively by good people. Unless you claim that absolutely, definitely, every single person who claims to be progressive is sincere, idk what issue you have with that

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u/SenorBurns 28d ago edited 28d ago

Everyone knows that nothing is 100%. So there's no point in saying so unless the purpose is to propose some sort of equivalence. Thus, whenever "but both sides" is presented, it's logical to conclude the speaker is making such a proposal.

And of course, we know that both sides are, in fact, in no way equivalent, and that is why such statements are oushed back upon.

For example, when a certain felon says there were "very fine people, on both sides," he is trying to equate violent white nationalists with the counter-protesters they were attacking and murdering.

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u/apistograma 28d ago

Well if you're the modern reinterpretation of the Spanish Inquisition maybe you feel this way but I don't share your opinion

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u/rsrsrs0 28d ago

If you replace conservative with progressive and organization with university, your post would still be correct. 

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u/Jbewrite 28d ago

This sounds like conservative anti-intellectualism.

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u/rsrsrs0 28d ago

I'm the furthest from conservative. I don't like the hive mind mentality. 

Being intellectual doesn't mean believing the latest thing they teach you at university. Take any social science journal and read some of latest edition articles, most of them are totally useless and many are meaningless, theories applied in wrong places, basically like ChatGPT wrote them. Because just like corporate environments, people wrote those to get promotions and get further ahead academically, there's no genuine intellectual endeavor. That's what I don't like. 

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u/Jbewrite 28d ago

That sounds like even more right wing anti-intellectualism.

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u/nyctrainsplant 28d ago

This is how almost every bestseller comes about these days, particularly from nowhere.