Comments | norilana: I've Been SHAMED for being a Self-Promotional Slut. :-)

norilana

I've Been SHAMED for being a Self-Promotional Slut. :-)

Jun 29, 2009 16:14

Yes, folks, you knew it was coming.

I've been soundly chastised and put in my place for daring to be a self-promotional slut.

Read the thread on SFF Net, starting here.

slut, self promotion

Comments 44

realthog June 30 2009, 04:59:22 UTC

But your shamelessness is one of the things we love most about you, V!

norilana June 30 2009, 05:03:35 UTC

And that kind of response is why I luv yah back! *smooch*

marrael June 30 2009, 06:24:48 UTC

Hell, I wish I could be more of a self-promotional slut. This makes me wonder though: do women appear "worse" than men when they self-promote because they're supposed to be, I dunno, more "modest"? :P (Probably something for its own discussion thread...)

norilana June 30 2009, 07:24:03 UTC

You know, that's a fascinating notion, about the perceptions of women vs. men in the self-promo arena. I think you have something there...

estara July 3 2009, 20:07:27 UTC

I've been reading Scalzi's Whatever for a year now, and exactly what Vera did in that post (only longer-winded) he very often does for his books, or other people's books for that matter. He links to the review work he does online and disables comments on his site, so that people read there and comment there and his salary is justified.

So obviously, this behaviour is ok for a male.

Gah, double standards.

I prefer people with common sense and chutzpah whether they're women or men. When I worked in an all-male environment I learned that waiting ladylike meant my opinion didn't get heard. I learned cussing out loud in great length there, too.

estara July 3 2009, 20:08:01 UTC

Umm and to make it clear I mean that Scalzi was longer-winded, not Vera.

dqg_neal June 30 2009, 14:39:13 UTC

You can't win all the time...
or most of the time...
but sometime would be nice.

ebenbrooks June 30 2009, 21:38:39 UTC

What a load of bollocks. Anyone who tries to tell you that it's not proper to do your own promotion is too chickenshit to do any for themselves, and thus they feel they have to prevent others from doing it to keep themselves from being ashamed of their own chickenshittiness.

norilana June 30 2009, 23:37:14 UTC

*smooch* and thanks for standing up for me. I think a lot of it, as katyakoshka mentioned upstream, is the tone and the method, not so much the fact that I did self-promotion ( ... )