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How to Make Me Not Read Your Fantasy Novel
1/Make the first female character in the book a slaughtered nun 'ripped open from neck to cervix'
2/Have the second female character be a prostitute.
While I'm at it, anyone who hasn't yet heard of the ongoing SFWA shenanigans regarding Theodore Beale/Vox Day's racist, sexist and all around WTF?response to NK Jemison's Guest of Honour speech at Continuuum should go read Amal El Mohtar's blog post 'Calling For the Expulsion of Theodore Beale from SFWA' here. And Jemison's graceful response here.
I am not and never will be eligible for SFWA membership, but the thought that 10% of SFWA voted for Beale in the recent presidential elections makes me feel ashamed for fandom as a whole.
Be warned: the rant it will make you feel dirty. But one must know her enemy, after all.
1/Make the first female character in the book a slaughtered nun 'ripped open from neck to cervix'
2/Have the second female character be a prostitute.
While I'm at it, anyone who hasn't yet heard of the ongoing SFWA shenanigans regarding Theodore Beale/Vox Day's racist, sexist and all around WTF?response to NK Jemison's Guest of Honour speech at Continuuum should go read Amal El Mohtar's blog post 'Calling For the Expulsion of Theodore Beale from SFWA' here. And Jemison's graceful response here.
I am not and never will be eligible for SFWA membership, but the thought that 10% of SFWA voted for Beale in the recent presidential elections makes me feel ashamed for fandom as a whole.
Be warned: the rant it will make you feel dirty. But one must know her enemy, after all.
