"Academic publishing is famously brutal.
... I know, because I have published more than 100 academic pieces in my career to date.
I've pretty much been through it all.
... I will say that the most difficult paper that my team (the New Paltz Evolutionary Psychology Lab) and I have ever tried to publish was a paper on the topic of political motivations that underlie academic values of academics.
I've never had a paper that was so difficult to publish.
Not even close."