"Sorry girls. There was a bomb threat and they all went over to Starbucks. Maybe next year."
"That's OK. We will catch them at the next Rand Paul rally. Let's go Heather. I feel like having a hot dog."
Sunday, August 16, 2015
Sad puppies will never surrender!
"Sorry girls. There was a bomb threat and they all went over to Starbucks. Maybe next year."
"That's OK. We will catch them at the next Rand Paul rally. Let's go Heather. I feel like having a hot dog."
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Sorry girls. There was a bomb threat and they all went over to Starbucks..
that's funny right there.
Is the tall one Kay Kendall?
No, Suzy Parker.
An old Twilight Zone episode. The guy is Richard Long.
That's what she said.
Oh dear... Sad Puppies. In two weeks our local science fiction convention will be on and I'm going to try really hard not to be pre-stressed and to have fun. One of the special guests is a noted anti-Sad Puppy but she seems nice and it would be fun to talk to her but I worry that she'd recognize my name and that it would be awkward.
Anyhow... thought I'd ask a neutral audience...
What is worse as far as name calling goes? Calling someone a "token" or calling someone an "idiot"?
I'd ask what is worse, "neo-nazi" or "pussy" but that seems too obvious. Sci-Fi-Dom had a batch of kittens over the word "pussy" but seems to think that no one should mind a bit being called a neo-nazi (which is, after all, simply descriptive and isn't "gendered" the way that "pussy" is.)
So... token or idiot?
Me? I'd view being called a "token" as far more offensive than being called an "idiot". But then I was all wrong about the neo-nazi vs. pussy thing so what do I know? In any case the context is like this...
Puppy-kicker: "Ah, the token female Sad Puppy Sarah Hoyt... blah blah blah."
Sarah Hoyt: "You are an idiot."
Puppy-kicker: "Way to keep the high ground..."
This is what we're dealing with, seriously people! Everyone should just ignore science fiction fandom and "community" and read books written by my friends. On our recent road trip the kids and I listened to the first Audible audio-book of Larry Correia's "Hard Magic". It was a completely different experience from reading it. For one, it was waaaaaaayyyyyy slower. But the change in pace was a benefit I think, at least it was *different* from just reading it at reading speed. And I finally read the next two, Spellbound and Warbound. Now I have to *listen* to them! Not that I'm friends with Larry Correia, but Sarah Hoyt probably counts. Darkship Thieves and Darkship Renegades were a whole lot of fun and A Few Good Men was good, too. She also has a series "Draw One in the Dark" that is hard to describe but completely worth checking out... shape changing sharks eating people in the middle of Colorado... figure out making THAT work!
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