well I got my wish!
Dec. 20th, 2009 11:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erastesI wish i had a camera now so I could take a picture. Six inches of snow and gorgeous sunshine. PERFICK.
However that means no Dad today, the main roads are undoubtedly gritted but I have 3 miles of country roads to navigate before the main road so I’ll go tomorrow instead. I have food drink and catfood so I can manage for a day.
I have to say that I’m getting hugely sick of the NIMBY gay-lit Queens who are going all Betsey Trotwood over the donkeys on their lawn. On the article on the LA Weekly there’s one particularly speshul snowflake who has this – among other moronic and deliberately inflammatory--things – to say.
Your writers are pretending to be gay men -- which they are not. These FRAUDS are poaching on the exceedingly hard-won territory of gay literature. As a result a lot of serious writing by gay men is being swept to one side while this psycho-sexual hen party has its way with my life and the lives of those I've loved. I have nothing but contempt for this.
Oh way to be professional David. There’s always one. I’m grateful for level heads such as Teddy Pig’s.
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Date: 2009-12-20 11:29 am (UTC)(Don't actually have a plotbunny, but it's a bunny so it counts)
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Date: 2009-12-20 11:32 am (UTC)Angie
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Date: 2009-12-20 11:47 am (UTC)Angie
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Date: 2009-12-20 11:40 am (UTC)Would like to see him support that statement about his writing "being swept to one side"!
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Date: 2009-12-20 12:47 pm (UTC)If he's upset that his literary masterpieces aren't selling (which is how it sounds to me), maybe he ought to look in a mirror and consider what the reading public wants. If all m/m romance disappeared tonight, those readers are NOT going to turn to his "Raised by Sock Puppets' or whatever it was. Sheesh.
Though I would like to go to the psycho-sexual hen party - it sounds like fun.
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Date: 2009-12-20 01:11 pm (UTC)*snort* This ^
Though I would like to go to the psycho-sexual hen party - it sounds like fun.
Only if I can be the honorary cock, lol. I even have appropriate iconage, see.
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Date: 2009-12-20 02:47 pm (UTC)Romance is the same. It influences us in ways we never expect. It teaches us about manhood, womanhood, heteronormativity and gaytopia, depending on what we read.
On topic: I want to know how two people with the names "Angelia" and "Naomi" are "pretending to be gay men." We don't write gay literature. We write genre fiction, which is SO not literature. The people who pick up our horror novel or swashbuckler may or may not pick up his Raised by Sock Puppets. But I can guarantee his readers will turn their noses up at something called Curse of the Pharaoh's Manicurists.
There's always one pearl-clutcher. Sometimes a lot more. This is exactly the behavior that got the sheet-sniffing test added to the Lambda Awards.
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Date: 2009-12-20 03:22 pm (UTC)And of course you're not pretending to be gay men and nobody with half a brain thinks you are or that you have to be in order to tell a good story.
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Date: 2009-12-20 04:30 pm (UTC)A lot of people don't really understand the concept of fiction. (my own mother thinks Air Force One has a secret escape pod, after all she saw it in at least 2 movies) And there are a lot of women who live lives of vague disappointment that real men aren't these chiseled gods that sweep them off their feet into the throes of pasion. They KNOW better on a surface level, but a part of them is still disappointed.
The last line says it all: I tell stories. I tell stories about anything that seizes my fancy or is needed. It might be Norse gods or the tale of my second son and the bananaphone or a Robin Hood ballad or even an unconventional love story. It's all the same. And they're all true, whether they happened or not.
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Date: 2009-12-20 01:46 pm (UTC)Read the LA Weekly article too, and the comments of that person as well. My my, I know we gay and lesbian folks can be somewhat touchy about how we are represented in any kind of media, but David sort of misses the point in full.
Not one single writer represents The Gay Male (or The Lesbian) experience. Because it doesn't excist, people. It simply isn't there. Even the very very very best gay male writer only gets a tiny part of what it can mean to be male and gay. And I'm sure they are very aware of that.
If writing m/m as a straight woman is a sin, what if a lesbian does it(who's been with her wife since '81, to make things worse)? An unimaginable horror? Or almost forgivable because I too live in the big bad straight world? ;-)
Almost forgot: love the rabbit!
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Date: 2009-12-20 02:04 pm (UTC)I checked out his blog, and he doesn't contribute anything, just rants and makes unfunny snide remarks to all the stuff he quotes. If quoting and embedding were illegal today, his blog would explode.
His self-serving bullshit is all about "ME!ME!ME!" so here's an attention whore +12. I fully intend to sell more books than he's ever seen in one place. Bye, bye, dinosaur.
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Date: 2009-12-20 03:44 pm (UTC)We can only hope.
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Date: 2009-12-20 02:51 pm (UTC)*still haven't stopped laughing at "Raised By Hand Puppets."*
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Date: 2009-12-20 04:52 pm (UTC)TW has garnered a review on Amazon that's quite good but the reviewer apparently took points off because (in Brendan's youthful and besotted POV) Philip is well-endowed. My beta reality-check, a gay friend on whom I depend for catching anything too unrealistic, suggested that perhaps it was that the reviewer did not feel he himself measured up in comparison.
I suspect the same is true of Little David.
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Date: 2009-12-20 06:53 pm (UTC)But if all he's going to do is whine and rant and tell me how I may and must not express myself, then screw him and the horse he rode in on. I'm not writing about him. I don't need his permission.
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Date: 2009-12-21 02:14 pm (UTC)Oh dear. That is unfortunate. I think someone needs this:
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