a horrible group of people

[solarbird]

In ref. the latest bit of SFWA-related fail, and the petition to restore the old system that lead to last year’s various racist and sexist disasters – because apparently 2013 wasn’t a bad enough year for the Science Fiction Writers of America, they must need another one – I was pointed at something else today.

The petition’s author, Dave Truesdale, described the 2007 atypically mostly-women PK Dick Award shortlist as, and I quote, “vagina-heavy” and the authors as “five furry pussies on the ballot,” in his column on SFSITE.com. He later amended the post to claim it was satire and protest against sexism by women, in true Men’s Rights Activist fashion.

Until now, I was merely very disappointed in the signatories to this thing. Now I’m angry. Anybody who would sign a petition by this asshole is off my reading list and onto my die in a fire list. Goddamn.

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Comments

[jessie_c]

Damn. A whole bunch of those authors wrote books that I read and enjoyed back in the day. I'm not among the 'separate the artist from his work' crowd so like Roman Polanski and Woody Allen, these people get to join my "never again" list :(

[solarbird]

I'm fully able to separate them - once they're dead, and can't benefit from it.

I look forward to being able to finish Cerebus, for example.

And... yeah. Very unhappy.

[jessie_c]

Warning: High levels of snark ahead.

[angelwolfgeek]

I'd really like to ask... how many times does someone need to be dropped on one's head to consider something like that appropriate?

[solarbird]

I don't even fucking know. I am so... disgusted. Appalled. I'm looking for words. Fuck all of them.