Keep That Pelvis Far From Me!

[silk_noir]

I can't believe that it's the second decade of the 21st century, and people are still getting wigged out concerning SEX in fiction.  Especially if it's not "genre" fiction, but "literary" fiction.  Whatever the hell that is.

Of course, some public wigging out draws attention to one's self, and that's publicity.  Publicity, cookies, identity.  I get

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[fengi]

If there's ever two people who deserve each other it's Almond and Rophie.

Rophie, of course, made her career out of sexual backlash, but Almond is like Tim Allen after attending the iowa writers workshop - he wrote an entire essay about a blogger who was mean to him which resorted to gay bashing insults and another about the Olympics in which he riffed on being too much of a straight manly man to tolerate ice skating. At least Almond almost acknowledges most arguments about a sexless lit are exercises in confirmation bias, before indulging in it as well, except to bash the strawman critic rather than the strawfemnist. Both need to consider the Literary Review's bad sex award and admit the real reason for sparing use of explicit sex in lit is because it's so easy to be bad at it.

[ccjohn]

Second one's better. Katie, it's about FUCKING. Ya wanna shut up with the trivia contest and drop your clothes, Jesus. I feel sorry for a guy named after tiny canned stuff from California but at least he had a schoolteacher picture in his article with her hair pinned up. A great way to begin talking about writers and fucking is to note Fucking Is Excellent and we need more of it. Now. It is easy to write sex bad then there is Hemingway. Of course they hate him. They don't hate him. If you're in, a lot doesn't have to matter.

[silk_noir]

~jaw dropped~

Did you just say that?

"Ya wanna shut up with the trivia contest and drop your clothes"

What the FUCK?

[ccjohn]

That was trying to argue for the older tradition over the new one. I'm sorry about that. I used bad judgment. I apologize.