guys I think I wrote RPF
If you've been following the Realms of Fantasy cover fail, you may have wondered, like me, how the response to the argument:So, Warren, I was wondering: now that Realms is under new management and all, when are we going to see some male asses on the cover?...Because it seems like you’ve got the whole naked women thing down and the boob thing down, so how about some equal time?
could be: I have been advised that in the lee of the appearance of the newly-reborn REALMS OF FANTASY magazine, issue #1 of which arrived here last week, and a handsome publication it is, one or two absolutely onion-headed p.c. morons have gone onto this electronic mimeo-fanzine madhouse to call the new publisher and the new magazine "sexist." The basis for this--10,000 years after Phoenician sculpture--is that the mermaid in the cover painting, are you ready...has breasts!
If so, welcome to Vito Excalibur's Unauthorized Puppet Theatre! Where we think it might have gone something like this.
Notes:
1) I did not ask anyone permission to post this! What that means is, nothing here is anybody's fault but my own. I put words in people's mouths. This is basically RPF, with all the appropriate disclaimers (i.e., it never happened and nobody said any such thing.)
2) However some people said some much worse things. And Tempest was much cooler than I was able to express. You should probably read them in their own words.
K. Tempest Bradford
Harlan Ellison (and subsequent heidipology)
Warren Lapine
Douglas Cohen
3) The cover in question.
4) The mock cover created by commenter Charlotte.
5) The Carl Brandon Society's response to Mr. Ellison's awfulness.
(reply at DW | see
comments @ DW)
could be: I have been advised that in the lee of the appearance of the newly-reborn REALMS OF FANTASY magazine, issue #1 of which arrived here last week, and a handsome publication it is, one or two absolutely onion-headed p.c. morons have gone onto this electronic mimeo-fanzine madhouse to call the new publisher and the new magazine "sexist." The basis for this--10,000 years after Phoenician sculpture--is that the mermaid in the cover painting, are you ready...has breasts!
If so, welcome to Vito Excalibur's Unauthorized Puppet Theatre! Where we think it might have gone something like this.
Notes:
1) I did not ask anyone permission to post this! What that means is, nothing here is anybody's fault but my own. I put words in people's mouths. This is basically RPF, with all the appropriate disclaimers (i.e., it never happened and nobody said any such thing.)
2) However some people said some much worse things. And Tempest was much cooler than I was able to express. You should probably read them in their own words.
K. Tempest Bradford
Harlan Ellison (and subsequent heidipology)
Warren Lapine
Douglas Cohen
3) The cover in question.
4) The mock cover created by commenter Charlotte.
5) The Carl Brandon Society's response to Mr. Ellison's awfulness.
(reply at DW | see
comments @ DW)