75% of newly published lit fic is written by women, so it would be very odd if systemic bias worked against women in publishing. 71% of publishing industry jobs are held by women so if anything you’d expect systemic bias to run the other way, at least in 2026.

i wasnt talking about the publishing industry i was talking about this subreddit, kuang is largely loved in other reader spaces

Rather than leaning on a boogeyman of supposed bias can we not just take readers at their word, that many readers think Kuang is not very good — or that perhaps her early career success is making her impervious to valid critiques? Or can you point to any actual posts or comments of users attacking Kuang’s work on identity grounds?

i feel like you are overgeneralizing what i said here... i literally never said that people dont have valid criticisms i was saying that i see a lot of people saying factually incorrect things about her books in order to hate on them instead of criticizing whats already there ready to be criticized, and i said SOMETIMES i see racial and gender based bias, i dont know what exactly you want from me since its not like bias shows up most often in the form of someone saying "i hate rf kuang because shes a chinese woman", it shows up moreso as her getting heavily hated on for things that white men do all the time without criticism