One silent tear

[james_davis_nicoll]

How sad it is to see a man reach out, only to be rejected

Comments

[onyxlynx]

Carboy of brain bleach, stat!

[eagle]

I don't think I dare click on that link. The tags are terrifying.

[thistleingrey]

I clicked, and I am going to go and read something entirely different now. whoa.

Also, like Shetterly, I cannot duplicate the browser-cookie result that a commenter alleges as linking Cherie Priest with specfriction. Commenter must've gotten something crossed in browser history after visiting her site. (Like, someone's attempt to link Priest to that Tumblr is the only other reason to skim the linked page, and here I am to say that that part is empty.)

[centuryplant]

__utmz cookies are used by Google Analytics to track how people get to a site. The one posted on that thread simply means that at some point in the last six months, that commenter followed a link from cheriepriest.com to authorlife.tumblr.com. It has nothing to do with the specfriction Tumblr and nothing to do with the ownership of any Tumblr.

[rydra_wong]

Likewise. I. Just. No.

[kate_nepveu]

Those are some excellently informative tags. I thank you.

[james_davis_nicoll]

Not usefully visible on LJ. This is James' sad face.

[kate_nepveu]

If so, it's because of people's own reading page styles; they show up just fine for me on my LJ friends page and on your own journal page when I unclick "view in own style".

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

There really needs to be a way to read the tags without first clicking the post.

[kgbooklog.livejournal.com]

Hovering over the link was enough for me.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I forgot something. Sorry.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

OH GOD THE WILL SHITTERLY TAG MAKES ME WANT TO GO BACK TO SEE JUST HOW STUPID HE IS TODAY AND I ALREADY SAW HIM MAKING A STUPID FUCKING ASS OF HIMSELF ON MARY ROBINETTE KOWAL'S POST.

You are a bad person. I am certain of it. For the record.

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

The tags don't show up in the RSS feed, I think. So I clicked on it there. Blast it. I obviously need to look at what the link is before clicking it.

What is a "pinkshirt"? Is that a dig at Scalzi?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Yes. Scalzi is a "gamma" and a "rabbit" and a "pinkshirt" because he is stupid and believes "women" might be "people" and not "vending machines with vaginas". This gives him and everyone like him a totally unmanly pink shirt.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

And men who don't brusquely domineer their women, I think.

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

Pinkshirt = godwin's law (ala blackshirts or brownshirts etc...) + implying people are stinking commies.

Literally, pinko-nazi.

[raycun.livejournal.com]

vox popoli?
Is there supposed to be a joke in the misspelling?

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Just have to keep stirring the cesspool, don't you?

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Our host is something of an ohnotheydidnt for the SFF world at times...

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

At times?

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I will note, just as a generality, that your linking helps give him the attention he so craves.

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

The funniest thing about the whole Beale/SFWA thing to me is that Beale transparently wants SFWA to kick him out, because it would feed his heroic-victim delusions. So he did something that in any other trade organization would be immediately, obviously worthy of expulsion. But my heavens, judging someone on the basis of their actions might be hasty, hroom hroom.

Beale's clearly having a grand old time with all this. The convenient thing about having a persecution complex is that every situation's win-win: if you win, you've just won; if you lose, you get to complain about it.

[jamoche]

The whole thing has reached popehat: http://www.popehat.com/2013/07/01/why-does-talking-about-creepers-and-harassment-make-people-so-angry/

[kgbooklog.livejournal.com]

Why is Popehat linking to Vox Day with the label "alarmingly close to the mainstream"?

[tavella.livejournal.com]

Oh, look. Comments filled with guys explaining how geekdom is a men-only space where the socially awkward found sweet refuge, and all those evil fake geek girls are coming in and making them uncomfortable and shit! Because guuuuuuuuurls didn't go to conventions decades ago! Or play RPGs! Or read SF! I was a figment of my own imagination!