He's fabulous--he was in Stockholm on Friday, actually. ♥ All these women are so, so worth reading. They're amazing.
Oh, that sounds fascinating, I totally will!
The summary post is pretty thorough, if you want somewhere to start from--I completely understand being overwhelmed, there is just so much there, it's ridiculous.
Oh, and, hmm, I would maybe not call it wank? With the pseudonymity, what happened was two medium-name scifi authors (who were being kind of obnoxiously racist during the discussion) decided it wasn't fair that one of their critics was "hiding" behind a livejournal (because it's their decision who gets to be anonymous on the internet) and decided to out her. And that (and a lot of other things in this debate) kind of goes beyond wank--I just hate that word a lot, because it carries a connotation of silly, you know? I do wholeheartedly agree that people should stop being idiots, I really wish people were better listeners. It makes me sad. Hence this whole post, because these writers are more important than those assholes. Even if posting this is an exercise in preaching to the choir, because my flist is awesome. ♥
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Date: 2009-03-08 11:18 pm (UTC)Oh, that sounds fascinating, I totally will!
The summary post is pretty thorough, if you want somewhere to start from--I completely understand being overwhelmed, there is just so much there, it's ridiculous.
Oh, and, hmm, I would maybe not call it wank? With the pseudonymity, what happened was two medium-name scifi authors (who were being kind of obnoxiously racist during the discussion) decided it wasn't fair that one of their critics was "hiding" behind a livejournal (because it's their decision who gets to be anonymous on the internet) and decided to out her. And that (and a lot of other things in this debate) kind of goes beyond wank--I just hate that word a lot, because it carries a connotation of silly, you know? I do wholeheartedly agree that people should stop being idiots, I really wish people were better listeners. It makes me sad. Hence this whole post, because these writers are more important than those assholes. Even if posting this is an exercise in preaching to the choir, because my flist is awesome. ♥