tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post824825757647363937..comments2024-03-28T01:35:06.977-05:00Comments on Pretentious Title: The loudest sound in the world is a bigot screaming that he's being silencedRachel Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917123007610750274noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-30228843684414874052014-05-22T23:28:13.273-05:002014-05-22T23:28:13.273-05:00Thank you. Thank you. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-4771953478571243552014-05-15T07:35:50.955-05:002014-05-15T07:35:50.955-05:00Orson is by far the most closeted Gay man in Ameri...Orson is by far the most closeted Gay man in America today. The only series of books I have read by him were the completely botched American witchcraft books I cant even remember the title.. Anyway the man makes the most lovingly lavish descriptions of his manly character that made me cringe with creepy - I mean he tried to make the women seem attractive but there was something missing.. Heterosexuality maybe? What I love about Rachel is that her women seem real I love the relationships I am a man who loves women and I love the woman's mind the most and I adore her body and that is what I love about Rachel's stuff she gives us women with commitment. Orson is a repressed Gay man with issues - he needs to let go - he is the one repressing himself he cannot claim otherwise. Ted Sbardellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06053815369405141582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-87103962991380196192014-05-15T07:35:27.051-05:002014-05-15T07:35:27.051-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ted Sbardellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06053815369405141582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-55939549135805174902014-05-13T01:51:14.605-05:002014-05-13T01:51:14.605-05:00Yes, you Rock, Rachel!
It never stops being funny...Yes, you Rock, Rachel!<br /><br />It never stops being funny how the old boys club screams and cries when their own rules are turned against them. You have an opinion and someone called you out on your bullshit? How very unfair! <br />barbexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-17518545651935444002014-05-12T20:08:13.023-05:002014-05-12T20:08:13.023-05:00It never ends, these guys just can't quit thes...It never ends, these guys just can't quit these posts. I read all of the Hugo nominated short stories, BTW, and "Vox Day's" was just the most derivative, terrible story, I couldn't understand what it was doing there until I looked up who he was and connected it to all of this. Some people must have been voting him up because of all of this crap. Keep up the good work, Rachel. It's just like the NBA, the difference between having the right to speak and having the ability to say it in a private organization is the point. And whether or not fans want to keep paying for what they're shoveling out. A lot of people have had the Chris Brown debate, can you or should you separate the artist from the art. I think it's probably a matter of degree, how much have they offended you, how far over the line did they go so it's poisoned everything they touch? I won't be reading anything a lot of these guys have written, that's for sure. There are too many other great things on my to-read list to waste my time or support on them, even when the books are free from the library. I won't even give them circulation numbers.Greytfriendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07134252504253192363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-247403006610325962014-05-11T10:56:57.975-05:002014-05-11T10:56:57.975-05:00Using "bigot" in the title and the phras...Using "bigot" in the title and the phrase "middle-aged white man" in a negative racial and sexual sense is Orwellian. "1984" is your legacy and a warning, not a blueprint. Answer with a "LOL" and then go look up "doublethink."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00004333519370593118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-2405851378474238162014-05-11T07:04:59.742-05:002014-05-11T07:04:59.742-05:00White middle-aged bigots is probably better I supp...White middle-aged bigots is probably better I suppose. I'm guessing you don't like that that phrase implies that all middle-aged white act and feel that way. All I can say about that is you now know how frustrated and offended everybody else has felt about just about everything for as long as foreverAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08379740627897636145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-54380345139508659242014-05-11T06:38:25.107-05:002014-05-11T06:38:25.107-05:00Nope. This is just an opinion. Plainly given in re...Nope. This is just an opinion. Plainly given in response to the opinion of another. Get back under your bridgeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-7995867226442025672014-05-09T16:26:01.816-05:002014-05-09T16:26:01.816-05:00Larry Correia linked this story in on his facebook...Larry Correia linked this story in on his facebook, so you'll probably get a lot more of the whole annon crazy comments.<br /><br />Incidentally, I agree with everything you've said. I'm always amazed by the amount of people who love going around screaming 'THIS IS ALL BS! MAN UP!' and then run away crying about how unfair and how mean other people are when they get confronted by what they say. Man up, indeed! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-27159288815982401222014-05-09T07:16:26.437-05:002014-05-09T07:16:26.437-05:00I rather feel that this post isn't quite as wo...I rather feel that this post isn't quite as worthy as you might think it is. Don't get me wrong, the post that motivated it was utter toss, but still.<br />The problem is, the moment you take an extreme point of view on anything at all, you tend to exclude a lot of what most people would refer to as common sense. The comments of Mr Wright lose all credibility when he makes statements like 'This is a Hispanic person being accused of racism' - the classic misunderstanding of the truly brain dead that a person of an ethnic minority culture in any given society is incapable of being themselves prejudiced. It’s akin to the old chestnut of 'I can't be a racist, I have a black mate.'<br />Anyone with half an ounce of sense and intelligence would therefore quickly be able to dismiss a lot of what the man says as utter dross. Unfortunately, you've taken it on as a crusade, and jumped right to the other end of the silly see-saw. <br />Whether you like it or not, there often IS a difference between the personal beliefs of an individual and what they put in their fiction. Scott-Card is quite backwards in many of his beliefs, but as far as I am aware (never having bothered to read any of his stuff) he's never been accused of putting racist/homophobic comments or commentary in any of his books, and thus there *is* an argument (whether you like it or not) that his books should be judged on their merit alone. That means that they would be valid for an award, even if the man himself is repulsive to you as an individual.<br />As to Vox Day - having read a good few of his blog posts, the man is a complete moron, incapable of having anything approaching an interesting or original thought and substituting with great, neon drenched red flags of obvious provocative bullshit in order to cultivate some reaction and give him the attention he so clearly craves. I don't actually care if he writes good fiction or not, his personality alone is enough to make sure I would never read them, but that doesn't give me the right to pronounce whether they are good or not, or whether they, as works of fiction, are deserving on their own merits of an award.<br />The main point worthy of note about his Hugo nomination was that it came in the wake of the whole Jonathon Ross furore, when the community as a whole showed itself right up by bullying the man out of volunteering to host their award for free on the basis of spurious claims about him with no root in fact whatsoever. . <br />The hypocrisy worthy of note there went to the organisers and fans of the event - if Day wrote a novel that people felt worthy of nomination, then so be it - it would be a far more powerful message to invite him to the ceremony, give him the award and make it explicitly clear in the presentation that the award was for his book alone, and that his personal views and opinions were abhorrent and not in keeping with the spirit embraced by the community as a whole. Kick him out and refuse him the opportunity of an award based on his personal proclivities and all you do is give him more fuel for his poor martyr of the loony lefties routine.<br />People like Wright and Day and all the other old-school 'oh woe is us, we are so persecuted' idiots make themselves look quite stupid enough all by themselves. When you react with thoughtless anger and rage, decrying them and their work and shouting about how evil they inherently are and how everyone should boycott everything they do, all you actually achieve is to add to that picture they LOVE to cultivate about how persecuted they are. Don't give them the time of day. Stop reading them and what they spew out. Ignore them, as they deserve. Their views and opinions belong in the dustbin of history, so don't keep raking through that dustbin and spilling them all over the pavement as it were.<br />Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11707862837149116020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-40475487162314403962014-05-08T23:21:38.946-05:002014-05-08T23:21:38.946-05:00Ah, for the Good Old Days of SF, when it was all b...Ah, for the Good Old Days of SF, when it was all being written by manly men who were male and manly like that Andre Norton guy and his good buddy Andrew North, or C.L. Moore, or Leigh Brackett...Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05562186946029521001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-10010005054569009342014-05-08T17:43:36.075-05:002014-05-08T17:43:36.075-05:00Probably should have left this one go. Throwing ar...Probably should have left this one go. Throwing around "middle-aged white men" as a pejorative is not nice. We have feelings too, you know, and there are lots of us reading military scifi.<br /><br />For the record, I'm a fan of your work because you write fantastic stories with interesting characters, exciting action and great wordbuilding. Your gender is completely irrelevant to me, and probably to most fans.<br /><br />Likewise, I'm a fan of Larry Correia's work for roughly the same reasons. The fact that he's a libertarian and apparently likes to insult people on Twitter isn't relevant to the fact that his work is enjoyable. <br /><br /><br />To Jennavier, the population of people who go online and yell about this sort of thing, on either side, is tiny compared to people who just want to read good books. It's best ignored. <br />This whole kerfuffle is not anyone's finest hour.ZKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-43098631555267269132014-05-08T16:37:04.548-05:002014-05-08T16:37:04.548-05:00I'm struggling with all the nonsense. As an as...I'm struggling with all the nonsense. As an aspiring author I've had to take a long hard look at whether I want to write speculative fiction, specifically sci-fi. I've strongly considered not doing so because of all this. I grew up reading military SF because that was what was around and I LOVED it. Sadly as I got older I found that it didn't really match my interests anymore and I drifted away from it. Now instead of writing the story that I always wanted to read in the genre I just want to leave it all under a rock and walk away, both as a writer and a fan. Jennavier Gilberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02497588092251261658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-84673570885122408432014-05-08T15:02:54.090-05:002014-05-08T15:02:54.090-05:00So, let's see if I can summarize Mr. Wright, a...So, let's see if I can summarize Mr. Wright, a writer who always needs to be summarized. <br /><br />"In the good old days, we straight white men could exclude the perspectives of people who aren't like us and casually insult them without being called on it. It was a time of intellectual freedom! But now we're living in a dystopia ruled by the thought police. Waaaah! (Anyway, what they said wasn't really that bad.)"Mike Reeves-McMillanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06658462904614685810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-4590026063076183292014-05-08T13:33:44.709-05:002014-05-08T13:33:44.709-05:00Nice, Anonymous comments! Must be doing something ...Nice, Anonymous comments! Must be doing something right :D <br /><br />You aren't going to change my mind and I'm not going to change yours, so here's some Kirbies!<br /><br />(>^_^)> !!! THANKS FOR READING !!! <(^_^<)Rachel Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13917123007610750274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-70957584291145322502014-05-08T13:10:32.240-05:002014-05-08T13:10:32.240-05:00Well said! Thank you, Rachel!Well said! Thank you, Rachel!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-12494622818993809002014-05-08T12:36:38.319-05:002014-05-08T12:36:38.319-05:00OSC is not a homophobe. He's been branded one ...OSC is not a homophobe. He's been branded one by the thought police, but that doesn't automatically make it true. Please do your homework before you decide to join a mob and lynch someone. The accused might not have done what mob is saying they did. <br />http://www.hatrack.com/misc/Quotes_in_Context.shtmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-1984021782532622782014-05-08T11:41:18.359-05:002014-05-08T11:41:18.359-05:00Blech. This just one long appeal to majority/mob r...Blech. This just one long appeal to majority/mob rule, not some principled defense of the SFWA.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-10387310555638694712014-05-08T11:26:06.639-05:002014-05-08T11:26:06.639-05:00You rock.You rock.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17732327757328450421noreply@blogger.com