Brevard author's #misandryinpublishing Twitter rant does not go as planned

Local author David Kearns (@Davez_not_here) tweeted Thursday he had a "bad Twitter argument" with an associate literary agent.

The agent, according to Kearns, had "retweeted a post saying male writers could not possibly describe a female main character."

According to his tweets, he responded to her, asking her to clarify her stance. He had pitched his work to her agency, and "wanted to know if he was wasting his time."

The hashtag he used, #misandryinpublishing, quickly began trending and not in the way he might have expected.

Users' reactions varied, but many of those reacting were authors themselves, and tweeted in ways only an author would: By writing a story.

Some were dumbfounded:

Many were just annoyed that he didn't thread his tweets.

Kearns, who ran for Florida’s House District 53 in 2016, lost to Randy Fine.

Ironically, Rep. Randy Fine was trending on Twitter last week, along with other politicians like Sen. Marco Rubio, for #VoteHimOut. On Twitter, Parkland school shooting survivor Jaclyn Corin cited Fine, who plans to file legislation to repeal gun control measures put in place after the Valentine’s Day massacre. Fellow Parkland survivors Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg retweeted Corbin’s tweet about Fine.