One silent tear

[james_davis_nicoll]

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

Comments

[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]

Ten percent of the SFWA did vote for him in all his misogynist white supremacist glory, which does strike me as "alarmingly close to the mainstream". Given that there's a basic filter of "capable of writing and selling at least a couple works" which presumably clears out the real droolers.

[avram]

At 10%, the crazification factor for SFWA is considerably lower than that for the general US population.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Thank you. You rendered my response more concisely than I did, so I deleted mine.

[erikagillian.livejournal.com]

Ten percent of those who voted. If I remember the number of voters wasn't all that high.

And the excuse someone had for voting for him so the Cabal wouldn't get a hold of the treasury! was amusing.

[jamoche]

Someone else raises that question. The author replies:

I don't mean "alarmingly close to the mainstream" as a compliment. I mean that nutty and frothing freakery is more common and closer to accepted on issues of gender than on, say, issues of race. "Society conspires to advance the interests of women over men, and women can't be trusted" is tolerated to a greater extent than the same comment with "blacks" substituted would be, for no logical reason.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

There's some intersectionalism going on, however. There have been some very nasty racial slurs thrown at NK Jemisin, who is a woman of color.

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

Yes, and the thread James links to has at least a dozen of those racial slurs. Personally, I find Popehat to be routinely clueless on things such as intersectionalism (and politeness, and modesty, etc. etc.)

[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!

[wakboth.livejournal.com]

As a socially awkward geek man myself, those guys can go and boil their heads. They're embarrassing.