Comments | cleolinda: Sit down and get comfortable

cleolinda

Sit down and get comfortable

Mar 25, 2011 18:23

Internets, there was a lot of jackassery today. It's kind of impressive.

The Wicked Pretty Things imbroglio: Jessica Verday explained that she was pulling out of the YA anthology because she was asked to make a story with a male/male romance into a male/female romance. No problem with the actual content, violence or language; just make one of the ( Read more... )

wtf, publishing, appropriate responses to bad situations, books, shenanigans, down with this sort of thing, fraud, asshaberdashery, well that happened

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cleolinda March 25 2011, 23:59:28 UTC

Heeeeeeee.

I just... I don't even know. I'm waiting for everyone else to find out, because I doubt you'll be the last to pull out.

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cleolinda March 26 2011, 00:06:27 UTC

Heh, no kidding.

I'm really, really curious to see how this plays out. Because it's not like anyone's going to agree to replace y'all, and even if they're just like, "Well, we lost four stories, we'll just... get by... somehow," it's still going to be known as The Anthology That Doesn't Believe Gay Kids Exist. It's going to be known that way by people who never would have heard of it otherwise! There's only two things I can think they can do at this point, and I'm curious to see which one it'll be.

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cleolinda March 26 2011, 00:00:28 UTC

Well, those were two separate things. The "candy for dinner" bit was Scott Adams talking about why you shouldn't argue with women who want rights. It's actually a lot worse.

allthelivesofme March 26 2011, 00:05:31 UTC

Well, I mean, women. It's as useless debating with us as it would be to actually talk to a toddler or one of those ewwww, mentally handicapped people. So very silly that any of them think they're *people*, right??

((I now feel ill from typing that))

cleolinda March 26 2011, 00:08:00 UTC

If he'd just stuck to "women are like children," that would have been bad enough, but then it went to this completely different place that was, like, 3-D douchery.

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renne March 26 2011, 00:03:40 UTC

This is the first I've read of this, but Running Press and the name Trisha Telep seem familiar to me. Have they been up to other inappropriate shenanigans before?

cleolinda March 26 2011, 00:11:29 UTC

You know, I don't remember anything offhand.

particle_person March 26 2011, 01:30:21 UTC

She edited a Cassie Clare short story...but she edited a lot of people's short stories so we can't hold it against her. ;-)

sour_idealist March 26 2011, 00:06:59 UTC

Clearly it is international BASIC DECENCY, DO YOU SPEAK IT day.

celestineangel March 26 2011, 00:09:14 UTC

I... this... I just... WTF?

What is in the water today? Undistilled Stupid?