Dear Mr Moylan
Aug. 19th, 2010 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erastesJust in case Gawker decide not to approve my comment, I’ll post it here.
Dear Mr Moylan,
Oh dear – where to start? It's a bit of a joke that lazy journalists don't bother to check any of their facts, but what's not new is that they really, really don't. I don't know how you could have got more facts wrong unless you made it all up. Oh, yes. I see!
1. M/M isn't new. It didn't start with Kirk and Spock either.
2. And it's not "erotic novels" either. If you had bothered to look at any site that dealt with it, there are all levels of romance—just as there are for heterosexual romance. Are you saying that heterosexual romances, which these days nearly all have sex scenes much more explicit than I remember from when I used to read 'em, are straight porn. Granted, my first two novels do have sex in them, quite a lot of it, but that's the PUBLISHER'S insistence. Some publishers want a sex scene in every chapter.
3. Dirty Stories? So gay sex is dirty? That's a nice attitude you have there, Mr Moylan. Considering that you consider your own penis to be dirty, I think I understand where you are coming from.
4. "they aren't doing it for the boys who like boys." No, we aren't. Neither are we writing for women. That's entirely false. The press release for the Running Press line originally said "written by straight women FOR straight women." Considering that none of the four flagship authors (Alex, myself, Lee Rowan, Donald Hardy) are straight women, we squashed that at birth. I don't write for anyone but me, the fact that straight, bi, lesbian women and gay and bi men like my work is bunce.
5. The stereotyping of suburban women reading romance is so offensive I'm amazed you are kept on the site. These people probably do exist, but they are exactly the type that DON'T read gay romances. The Romance Writers of America for example are making sure that gay novels don't get accepted by their organisation. At one point they amended their definition of Romance to read that it had to be between a man and a woman. As you can imagine there was a shit storm about that and they had to recant.
6. As to our "secretly wanting to be gay men" – there's nothing secret about it. Have you never heard of intersex? Transex? If I could have the surgery, believe me, I would. It's not that unusual, but no – you choose instead to make fun of something you have no way of comprehending. http://www.dearcupid.org/question/i-feel-like-im-a-gay-man-in.html
7. I don't know where you live, Mr Moylan, but newsflash. Gay sex isn't "forbidden" in the UK, and most? of the USA, (as far as I know). I find your farcical pseudo-psychobabble hilarious as you pathetically attempt to understand why – if I was a man – I'd be a Top. I love men, actually—and have no aspirations to stick it to any of them. Never owned nor used a strap on either, no interest in doing that. I'm a top in female relationships too. Not that it's anyone's business.
8. *still giggling at the term "vanquisher" * I must go and buy me one of those metal pointy bras.
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Date: 2010-08-19 06:03 pm (UTC)Victoria Brownworth is a WOMAN. A Lesbian, and says so very clearly at the start of her piece.
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Date: 2010-08-19 06:19 pm (UTC)ETA; WRONG link...
http://gawker.com/5615899/why-are-straight-women-so-obsessed-with-gay-sex
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Date: 2010-08-19 06:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-19 06:30 pm (UTC)The age of consent is SIXTEEN in the UK - and there has been talk of lowering it to 14 like some European states. The fact that young people DO have sex under the age of 18 does not make me a paedophile. I have not written any books where this occurs.
I would appreciate an apology, as that was wholly uncalled for.
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Date: 2010-08-19 06:50 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-08-19 07:33 pm (UTC)This is so stupid beyond belief.
I'm ditching both of these accounts and starting fresh.
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Date: 2010-08-19 07:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-19 07:58 pm (UTC)*hands you a cup of tea*
I'm not really a bitch, either. I just saw that and all I could think of was how destroyed Alex would be if she saw it...
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Date: 2010-08-19 08:02 pm (UTC)And thanks for the tea!
I think we all get angry when we see friends being attacked;but if it's any consolation to Alex (which it might not be--I don't know her so can't say), maybe it will sell some books for her. I know being lambasted by the religious right sold a shitload of books for me.
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Date: 2010-08-19 08:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-19 08:10 pm (UTC)Sorry things got so heated, Jennifer. Victoria is a friend of mine--so you were sticking up for your friend, I was sticking up for mine.
Peace? ;)
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Date: 2010-08-19 08:17 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-08-19 08:07 pm (UTC)Thank you both for being grown ups.
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Date: 2010-08-19 09:23 pm (UTC)http://www.mrsgiggles.com/
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Date: 2010-08-19 08:20 pm (UTC)Maybe this will bring you untold riches to make up for the irritation in the posterior portions...
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Date: 2010-08-19 08:01 pm (UTC)I'll be dumping both of these pseudonyms and starting fresh. I don't need that sort of crud following me around.
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