Gorean Invasion

[bellatrys]

We have an earnest (and verbose) Gorean chap just shown up on this thread to set us straight about how we didn't understand what we were reading, if anyone wants to have fun and show him the meaning of pain (or should that be, Pain

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[jonquil]

Link broken? I see no Goreans there.

[david_wisdom]

Here it is. Last half-dozen or so posts at the bottom.

I'd respond, but he concludes with the tired "Criticism equals censorship!" rhetoric and I, for one, have no patience for such nonsense.

Also, the blogging equivalent of "I dare you to print this!" It's almost too pathetic to be funny.

Re: Something to Think About - Part 1

[qitelremel]

[...]the tired "Criticism equals censorship!" rhetoric[...]

And that same rhetoric is cropping up again on this discussion already.  (Notice that the presumption is that we're calling for these books to be banned, despite the fact that no one's actually said any such thing.)

[evilstorm]

...Tempting, but I would probably lose my temper halfway and resort to beating him with sticks.

Which is pretty much what they deserve, yes, but it doesn't do much for the way of rational discussion.

[acaciaonnastik]

I'm debating the pros and cons of cat macros in this situation.

[evilstorm]

...Ooh. Ooh. My cat macro collection grows daily. Oh, the temptation...

[acaciaonnastik]

It wouldn't involve frustrating attempts to argue with someone who thinks criticism is OPPRESHUN... it would be a lovely blowing-off of steam... cats are very funny...

Hm. Do you think I should use "Halp! I is bein oppressed!!!!!!1!" or "Buddha Cat is too enlightened to give a flying fuck about your pompous bullshit"?

[fledgist]

That would require that there be both exoteric and esoteric readings of John Norman. Curiously, there are: the one developed here, of a homosexual subtext, being the esoteric reading.

[miracleofbeing]

::rubs her head:: I think that giant straw man just caused several of my brain cells to explode...

[tekanji]

I'm still in awe that anyone here actually read that dissertation. I got far enough to confirm that said person was, in fact, the moron. Read a few of the choice lines (I especially liked their closing line about you being like Norman; it was priceless), then posted the very appropriate "tl;dr".

[violaswamp]

It was amazingly long, wasn't it? I read one comment and that was about it--I stopped scrolling through to count his comments after I saw that there were two, because it was So Damn Long.

And he said nothing! That's the best part--the comments (at least, the parts that I read) could have been condensed into three lines or less.

...wait a second. Are we sure this guy isn't Norman himself? Repetitiveness, verbosity, pomposity...maybe he's a close genetic relative?

*stunned by your genius*

[deiseach]

"Are we sure this guy isn't Norman himself?"

Seeing as how we've already had an example on here of "Nah, that couldn't be who I think it is" and "Oh yes I am/she is!", there is indeed every possibility it could be Mr. Norman himself.

This is the point at which I go "Heh, heh, heh", right?