with their crooked stares

[maychorian]

For the interested, jujuberry136 has good thoughts about those Season 6 Criminal Minds casting spoilers. Well, more like good rants. But I found them very articulate and thought-provoking and I agree with everything she said.

In her extremely excellent link round-up on the recent unfunny business, amazonziti said something in this thread (which is also an excellent

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[gleeker13]

I'm not getting too involved in this, because I don't have the drive to devote hours to searching for discussion posts or to read the story, or even the excerpts. I do, however, want to throw my two cents in.

I'm not connected too much in fandom, and my friends haven't discussed this much, so I don't know what the overall tone is, but I think that discussing things like this helps to end ignorance and prevent this from happening again. As long as the discussion takes a polite tone, stopping to calm down and step away from the author herself-at the very least after the initial wave of anger-this whole thing could turn into something great, possibly helping many people realize that they've been doing things that harm others. I don't know how the author is reacting to all of this, but she is in a position where she could show that our fandom is a wonderful place where people can communicate, or a place where the crazies hide out. I'm really hoping she'll take the road that makes her an example of apologizing in a timely manner, without the world tearing its hair out.

To make an American celebrity example, I hope she'll Letterman approach, and not the Tiger Woods one.

[maychorian]

It would be nice if the author truly understood WHY and HOW she offended, rather than simply that her actions were offensive. Certainly. It's always good when one more person learns how to be a better person. That is my hope for her, personally.

But if she can't, I hope that the rest of fandom can have good discussions about this issue, anyway. I think we are moving toward that direction. I hope we can keep going.