Backstory here - partial, since he has subsequently deleted the post from which these quotes were taken - and more here, where slushmaster proves that taking it down was kind of pointless when it comes to reputational retconnage.--Suppose, for the sake of argument, the only representations of Jewish characters in genre fiction these days were to fall into one ( Read more... )

At least, if you don't have a clue to your name, you should really refrain from advertising that fact. For, you know, your own sake.

On a more intelligent note, the newest SFWA Stupidity Outbreak (must be something in the bottled water!) made me aware of Ray Gun Revival, an online 'zine of SF in whose forums I found this link to spiffy hi-res NASA ( Read more... )

(--even for a professional speculative fiction writer, sorry)

Some ten years before I was born, a white journalist undertook a very hands-on experiment, to try to understand what it was really like, even if only in a very limited way, to be black in this country. He had realized that he was not capable of achieving understanding simply by asking ( Read more... )

Alternate ending to the previous scenario: the foot-presser steps off before you can give them a forceful shove in the lumbar region, and with an unctuous smile says fulsomely (even with overtones of baby-talk), "I'm soooo sorrrryyyyy! Please forgive me! I promise never, ever, EVER to do it again. Okayyy ( Read more... )

Let's say you're at a shindig of some sort - an office holiday party, a department function, the post-lecture refreshments, a gallery opening, a con, any place where there are a lot of other people, most of whom you don't know personally or well, and a lot of milling around ( Read more... )

has revealed himself to be an avatar of Privilegeboy (and to have no clue that the abusive and predatory pick their victims carefully, either.)

Male "chivalry" was always a myth...and now I finally understand that scene in the movie Gandhi when he tells his old pal the English cleric that they need to do it themselves, without outside "help", now ( Read more... )