On "Save the Pearls"

[tanyad]

So... I've had some time to ruminate on this 'book'... "Save the Pearls". I put book in air quotes because this doesn't deserve to be called a book. It's a self serving, poor me, white people are OMG oppressed in this far flung, post apocalyptic, fictitious world so this is totally ok, AMIRITE?! oppression fantasy brought to you.

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[tanyad]

Sure

[biomekanic]

Maybe she should have called them snowflakes, since they melt in the heat and each one is so unique and different...

[tanyad]

Perfect zinger is perfect.

[biomekanic]

God help me, but I think she actually means well. But as God is my witness, she's so spectacularly bad at it, it makes my soul hurt, not to mention my head.

[girly123]

If she means well, she only means so for other white people. She's pretty overtly racist.

[fantasyecho]

I almost feel guilty for tweeting incessantly about it when I first discovered it... feels like I'm responsible for giving it any airtime =(

[tanyad]

Then I'm guilty too, since I've talked about it non-stop since yesterday.

[xlightbringerx]

I think it's good to bring stuff like this out into the open so that other, less-stupid creators of the privileged variety don't make the same mistakes.

At first I was thinking, "Maybe she wants to give white people a feel for what it's like to be the minority?" but then as I read your post I was like, what in the hell is this woman thinking. She obviously did not do her homework before all of this happened.

[neo_prodigy]

yeah i kinda felt that way too but then at the same time, some shit needs to get called out. so the next time i'm on a panel at a con talking about the rampant bigotry in the spec fic genre, i wish a mofo would look at me crazy.