Visualizing the institutional impossibility of androgenic literature

traditional success is no longer possible for the truly "male" writer

I’ve written multiple pieces on the homogenizing forces within the institutions of literary publishing.

To summarize: in any given cultural institution, psychodemographic class-capture inexorably leads to purity culture.

Purity culture leads to androgenic blockade.

I’m a big fan of diagrams. I think pictures are good at explaining certain things. In particular, I think diagrams are good at summarizing power relations and selection effects.

Here are some for your consideration below:

How things work: a summary.

Adding some demographic context puts things into even clearer terms:

Psychodemographic class-capture and negative selection, visualized.