This has been pointed out to them, in a number of venues they managed to offend.
I gather from the followup reply I got to my private email to them that I was correct in my speculation in the thread on erastes' LJ -- they had edited down the guidelines on the website to save space, and it simply hadn't occurred to anyone that the end result said something bloody offensive to both gay and straight fans of gay romance.
Posting it to the glbt book discussion groups was unlikely to be anything but an honest mistake, but that's an issue in its own right because even though the majority of the members read m/f as well, we don't want to be spammed *there* with ads for m/f, and there'd been an extended discussion of that very issue a week or two earlier. I think they initially assumed that's what the uproar was about. They have been disabused of this notion.
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Date: 2007-02-09 07:08 am (UTC)I gather from the followup reply I got to my private email to them that I was correct in my speculation in the thread on
Posting it to the glbt book discussion groups was unlikely to be anything but an honest mistake, but that's an issue in its own right because even though the majority of the members read m/f as well, we don't want to be spammed *there* with ads for m/f, and there'd been an extended discussion of that very issue a week or two earlier. I think they initially assumed that's what the uproar was about. They have been disabused of this notion.