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Writing about this now, since I didn't get to it last night.
Ahh, I just love the smell of misogyny in the morning, don't you? Or not.
Seanan McGuire is the author of Feed and many other wonderful books, and she has a new book coming out on March 6th. Or that's the official release date, anyway, if you ignore the fact that Amazon has taken it upon themselves to start shipping the book early. You can go to her entry to read more information about why this is important and why it is so, so sucky that Amazon has not FIXED this already, let alone allowed it to happen in the first place.
Seanan had nothing to do with this, had no control over it, and is sick with stress and worry about it. But somehow some of her readers - I'm not going to call them fans, because they're not - decided that it was her fault that the physical book was being shipped out early. This was all part of some nefarious plan to get all of us to buy physical copies rather than the ebooks, which are being released on the proper date! So the solution is CLEARLY to email the author and call her a bunch of horrible, misogynistic names, and threaten to gleefully pirate the book instead of getting the ebook at all.
So, a few things.
a) Seanan has no control over this and had nothing to do with this. She absolutely DID NOT want this to happen, and as I said before, her entry lays out pretty clearly why she wouldn't have wanted this to happen.
b) The release date is all of approximately two weeks away. Is that really that long a wait? Someone over at that entry put it very well - the entitlement that so many people feel to things right now, when they want them seems to mean that if anything gets in their way, that means they turn into gigantic three year old versions of themselves, throwing a temper tantrum and doing petty things like threatening piracy.
c) Even if this WAS her idea and she wanted us to buy her physical books, that is absolutely no excuse whatsoever to abuse her and hurl misogynistic insults at her. Every time I have some space to try and forget just how horrible the world can be towards women if they make people angry, this is the sort of thing I run into. Do I think that a man would have encountered the same sort of reaction? No. He might have been called a greedy bastard, but that's about it (and trust me, it does not have the emotional impact that the words thrown at Seanan do). People might have even admired a male author if they did think that he was manipulating things. A man doing that is taking control! A woman doing that is a greedy bitch.
So I'm going to use this entry to bring this to everyone's attention, and to direct you to her entry. I think she could use the support right now, and hey, if you happen to decide to check out her book while you're at it, all the more awesome.
There are
comments at Dreamwidth. http://kerri.dreamwidth.org/691064.html#comments
Ahh, I just love the smell of misogyny in the morning, don't you? Or not.
Seanan McGuire is the author of Feed and many other wonderful books, and she has a new book coming out on March 6th. Or that's the official release date, anyway, if you ignore the fact that Amazon has taken it upon themselves to start shipping the book early. You can go to her entry to read more information about why this is important and why it is so, so sucky that Amazon has not FIXED this already, let alone allowed it to happen in the first place.
Seanan had nothing to do with this, had no control over it, and is sick with stress and worry about it. But somehow some of her readers - I'm not going to call them fans, because they're not - decided that it was her fault that the physical book was being shipped out early. This was all part of some nefarious plan to get all of us to buy physical copies rather than the ebooks, which are being released on the proper date! So the solution is CLEARLY to email the author and call her a bunch of horrible, misogynistic names, and threaten to gleefully pirate the book instead of getting the ebook at all.
So, a few things.
a) Seanan has no control over this and had nothing to do with this. She absolutely DID NOT want this to happen, and as I said before, her entry lays out pretty clearly why she wouldn't have wanted this to happen.
b) The release date is all of approximately two weeks away. Is that really that long a wait? Someone over at that entry put it very well - the entitlement that so many people feel to things right now, when they want them seems to mean that if anything gets in their way, that means they turn into gigantic three year old versions of themselves, throwing a temper tantrum and doing petty things like threatening piracy.
c) Even if this WAS her idea and she wanted us to buy her physical books, that is absolutely no excuse whatsoever to abuse her and hurl misogynistic insults at her. Every time I have some space to try and forget just how horrible the world can be towards women if they make people angry, this is the sort of thing I run into. Do I think that a man would have encountered the same sort of reaction? No. He might have been called a greedy bastard, but that's about it (and trust me, it does not have the emotional impact that the words thrown at Seanan do). People might have even admired a male author if they did think that he was manipulating things. A man doing that is taking control! A woman doing that is a greedy bitch.
So I'm going to use this entry to bring this to everyone's attention, and to direct you to her entry. I think she could use the support right now, and hey, if you happen to decide to check out her book while you're at it, all the more awesome.
There are
comments at Dreamwidth. http://kerri.dreamwidth.org/691064.html#comments