You know what's almost as bad as homossssssssssssssssssexuals?

[james_davis_nicoll]

English majors! Elitist English majors!

Contains OSC

Comments

[bibliofile]

BOO.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

still shaking his cane at youngsters who write in the present tense, I see.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

It's perhaps not unexpected to see that he's a multi-dimensional crank rather than merely being a homophobic one. I'm also deeply amused as his characterization of all atheists being cut from the same confrontational and antagonistic mold as Richard Dawkins - especially in Western Europe (which seems entirely invisible to Card, perhaps he believes this entire region of the world only exists in liberal propaganda), people who rarely think about religion seem far more common.

I followed some of the links, and my one criticism with comments about "what happened to OSC" is that it's pretty darn clear what happened - the seeds of all of the creepy are clearly present even in his writing from the 1970s, it's just that his ideas were far more mainstream then and so he felt far less need to speak out about them. I challenge anyone to read Songmaster (1980) and not conclude that the author has some serious issues regarding both children and homosexuality.

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

Am I to understand that I am the only person here who has experienced the self-absorbed crap he describes so vividly from English "teachers"?

[pauldormer.livejournal.com]

I must admit that I at first read that as a problem involving English military people. We don't major at UK universities, we read a subject, and retired English majors are known to be reactionary, writing incensed letters to newspapers. (I'm sure disgusted of Tunbridge Wells was a retired major.)

[vschanoes.livejournal.com]

Well, one does one's best.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

"There is no human being without religion."
OK, I think we're done here.

[david wilford (from livejournal.com)]

Try as I might, I can't think of one instance where an artist has demanded public funding for their work as Card claims. Can anyone else?

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

" in English, where our real present is present progressive" HUH?

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

So now that gay marriage is legal how's his armed revolution thingie coming along?

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

I'm just wondering whether there's either a Maximum Daily Requirement or a Minimum Safe Exposure Level for OSC/mpr?

--Dave, and GOSH that abbrev. is close to "mpreg"