Ah, the long term plan emerges
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james_davis_nicollTheo "Vox Day" Beale, having previously asserted such interesting things as
when according to wikipedia she did not become President until 2003, shifts his cloud-shouting over to his Vox Day blog, which btw is going to make keeping a chinese wall between his Vox Day persona and secret identity as Theodore Beale pretty hard, reveals that he has not in fact read at least one of the books whose victory he denounces and then gets to what I assume was the whole point of the affair, launching his pre-doomed campaign to run for SFWA President.
Linking is not advocacy.
My gut feeling here is that once he loses, the next logical move is to set up an ideologically untainted rival to SFWA, perhaps one untainted by the oh so many groups of whom he disapproves.
Catherine Asaro’s The Quantum Rose, which won the Best Novel award in 2002, is perhaps the most egregious example; Asaro was the SFWA President at the time,
when according to wikipedia she did not become President until 2003, shifts his cloud-shouting over to his Vox Day blog, which btw is going to make keeping a chinese wall between his Vox Day persona and secret identity as Theodore Beale pretty hard, reveals that he has not in fact read at least one of the books whose victory he denounces and then gets to what I assume was the whole point of the affair, launching his pre-doomed campaign to run for SFWA President.
Linking is not advocacy.
My gut feeling here is that once he loses, the next logical move is to set up an ideologically untainted rival to SFWA, perhaps one untainted by the oh so many groups of whom he disapproves.
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Date: 2012-12-30 05:32 pm (UTC)Sort of like "Guns of the South", but with word processors rather than AK47s.
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Date: 2012-12-30 08:27 pm (UTC)The man revealed himself as an idiot in his first posts on Black Gate. But now we see him revealed as a fool as well. And not, let me haste to clarify as either a holy one or a court jester sort.
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Date: 2012-12-30 06:28 pm (UTC)He then violates that with a factually inaccurate rant about how the majority of SFWA is dominated by vaginas, and conspiring against his beloved penises. And also Scalzi was mean to him.
I look forward to Black Gate's response. Someone ought to ask them about it.
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Date: 2012-12-30 06:48 pm (UTC)What in the cor blimey huh eh?
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Date: 2012-12-30 08:17 pm (UTC)Perhaps more to the point that's how little relevance SFWA has these day to matters tht matter, and why I quit the org -- what? 12 years ago? something like that, already. Sometime after 9/11, when what really matters got very very very, and even more so that that, clear.
However, the sorts of attitudes this clown propagates about women and all kinds of other people, and his utter lack of critical acumen and tools for judging what is and what is not good writing -- that he's an architect of bigotry, sexism and all sorts of other anti-civilization objectives -- that does matter. More and more people around the world think like that. And act on that thinking, making it a more dangerous place for women, children, animals and other growing things every day.
Love, C.
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Date: 2012-12-30 08:19 pm (UTC)Because I imagine Asaro is less cantankerous than I, because who isn't, but if that were me Black Gate would be getting a nastygram from my lawyer. Accusations of professional double-dealing are srs bsns.
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Date: 2012-12-31 04:46 pm (UTC)--Dave, who has been reading Homestuck and now has one of the trolls irresistably pushing himself forward as a poster boy for this in his head
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Date: 2012-12-30 10:05 pm (UTC)(I stumbled over that when I went looking for this: I've never had any problem smacking around women, I'm all about equality.
I'm sure his candidacy will be met with the respect it deserves.
As for Black Gate, they published my first short story. I'm sorry to see them hosting this dude's sick bullshit.
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Date: 2012-12-30 11:11 pm (UTC)I haven't read his fantasy: if there was something there that was extra-special nifty I assume that I'd have been told about it by now.
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Date: 2012-12-31 12:44 am (UTC)I left because Scalzi issued an edict declaring that nobody could get a lifetime membership without an invitation-- i.e., the approval of John Scalzi-- and that the cost was raised to more than sixty years' dues.
This was shortly after he and other officers had enjoyed vacations paid for out of members' dues.
I know nothing about Beale, but if he can create an outfit worse than what Scalzi has turned SFWA into, he possesses supernatural abilities.
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Date: 2012-12-31 01:56 am (UTC)I can't tell if you're kidding or not, but for the sake of my faith in humanity I'm going to assume you're just trolling.
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