An author was raided in sydney this year for a 'romance novel' she wrote

it turned out to be pretty damn pedophillic, here's a crap source

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/crime/sydney-author-lauren-tesolinmastrosa-arrested-over-pedophilia-book/news-story/5babb82438d7adc5ca699c877b07641a

You will have to excuse me if i am sceptical of the intentions of the author of this NYT article

Vivian Wang

Vivian Wang is a China correspondent for The New York Times, based in Beijing, where she writes about how the country's global rise and ambitions are shaping the daily lives of its people. Previously, she was based in Hong Kong and New York City. In 2021, she was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize in public service for coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. She grew up outside of Chicago and graduated from Yale University.

Lol

To many people, the arrests also show how much the space for female and L.G.B.T.Q. expression has shrunk in China.

theyre stories written by straight women, for straight women, nice try tho! I actually dont feel great about hets writing steamy erotic novels about le gays.

i will never not be extremely sus on ivory tower journalists, theyre either feds, or being manipulated by the feds to publish articles justifying the feds.

Wang was previoisly awarded for her coverage of COVID in china, and if you google her name and corona virus you find plenty of 'the peasants are revolting against the emporer' kind of articles, 'the chinese are covering it up' 'we looked at gps data to get the real story'

these articles very rarely cite any regular people who live in China, its generally experts from the usa all the way down.

anyway, my point is, remain critical, approach things with caution, honestly i feel pretty sad someone would post this here without any sort of analysis. inadvertanly promoting the face value 'theyre killing queers'

need i remind you how the NYT reports on Palestine?

sorry this is cranky i havent had coffee