I was utterly horrified at how high school her and pnh's behaviour were, particularly considering that the worst thing anyone had said to them was "you do realise how offensive these comments are in full context, right?"
That was truly disturbing. From my perspective, when someone who freelances as an editor with one of the major publishers of science fiction in North America, who is the partner of someone who is an editor at the same publishing house, and who runs one of the more highly regarded SFF writing workshops with said partner, says to people who include current and hopeful SFF writers "I'm taking names and telling my partner and I will not forget this," there is no way to interpret it as other than a threat along the lines of "you'll never work in this town again."
And of course, there's the endless categorisation of her critics as hordes, nithings, sock-puppets, and anything else that she can possibly think of to try to handwave the critiques away.
It's a pity that she flocked that post, in some ways - I think it must by now contain every possible variation on how privileged people ignore, marginalise, suppress and oppress and otherwise try to make people who call them on their privilege just go away. It's textbook material.
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Date: 2009-02-04 12:47 am (UTC)That was truly disturbing. From my perspective, when someone who freelances as an editor with one of the major publishers of science fiction in North America, who is the partner of someone who is an editor at the same publishing house, and who runs one of the more highly regarded SFF writing workshops with said partner, says to people who include current and hopeful SFF writers "I'm taking names and telling my partner and I will not forget this," there is no way to interpret it as other than a threat along the lines of "you'll never work in this town again."
And of course, there's the endless categorisation of her critics as hordes, nithings, sock-puppets, and anything else that she can possibly think of to try to handwave the critiques away.
It's a pity that she flocked that post, in some ways - I think it must by now contain every possible variation on how privileged people ignore, marginalise, suppress and oppress and otherwise try to make people who call them on their privilege just go away. It's textbook material.