Wanna be gender investigators are usually fucking wrong <-appearently that actually needs to be said

[olivermoss]

Content creator Bookish Jono, aka m/m author Elliot Kyle, has recently repeatedly claimed that another m/m author is female and is misrepresenting themselves as a guy. People seem to be making the assumption that Jono has 'outed' the author as trans, but... there is zero reason to assume Jono has a fucking clue what he's talking about. Jono is an idiot and the author in question is very private.

Jono has de-activated his author accounts, apologized, etc. But we all know how this song as dance goes: he'll be in lockdown for a bit and then come back. So, if you want to avoid buying from a guy who sparked off a lot of people questioning the genders of various authors on threads and insta, might want to note that name.

An insta reel talking about the situation. I'm not on Threads or Booksta, so I didn't see this when it first blew up, just a lot of vagueing.

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

Why are people IDEK.

[olivermoss]

I don't know. I am so confuse. Jono didn't claim the other author is trans, he claimed that the other author is female and maliciously using a male psued.

Do I need to make these people a powerpoint presentation? wtf

[mistressofmuses]

Yuck. Appreciate knowing the name, and have him added to my "nah" list.

This attitude is one I've seen before (trying to "investigate" another author's gender/identity to "out" them and try to steal their sales in some fashion.) It's almost always very gross and a lot of bullshit.

(There are some exceptions, where it's more a true catfishing type situation, but that does not sound like the case here, at all.)

[olivermoss]

Usually when I see someone the subject of this kind of bullshit, the investigators are really wrong. People like this aren't clever, they are shitty.

I've seen it happen a few times that someone was like 'this isn't what I think being gay is like / what gay community is like, they must be an outsider!' But in reality the accuser was just refusing to accept their experiences aren't universal. A true outsider POV tends to not annoy people, doesn't get under the skin.

Also, the other author in this case is known for being very private. It's roughly a thousand times more likely that Jono is considering that desire for privacy sus than actually has any sort of inside info.