Is the Bookternet a safe place for women?
What do you think? Is the Bookternet a safe place for women to voice their opinions? Would you have quit a book internet site if this had happened to you? Or would you have handled it another way? Read this article and let me know what you think: http://bookriot.com/2015/03/25/bookternet-not-safe-women-quit-goodreads/
I know I left a book club on Goodreads because I was blasted twice for comments I made about a book. They weren't derogatory comments, just thoughts I had on a couple of incidents that occurred in the book. Sometimes people see things differently when reading and apparently two people took offense that I had misinterpreted what had happened in the book and decided to tell me how stupid I had been not to see it their way. It was quite upsetting and I decided that book clubs weren't for me. But so far I haven't had any negative feedback on reviews I've given. I think if this had happened to me, I would have reported the person to the powers to be on any particular book site, if possible.
This is an issue that I've wondered about now that I'm writing 2-3 reviews a week on Amazon and quite a few book sites, such as BookLikes. And it is a concern to me. But I know that I count on others' reviews when I'm trying to decide on my next book so I would like to contribute to that by writing my own reviews. How sad that voicing your opinion should be cause for concern.
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