The handsome and hard-working Larry Correia fisks the Guardian.

[agilebrit]

Right here. Read it all.

This right here is the money quote: They were bored with dying polar bears, murderous bigoted Christians, lectures about the dangers of capitalism, and thinly veiled Dick Cheneys as bad guys. You can really only slap half of the country upside the head and tell them their beliefs are stupid and backwards so many times before they quit buying your stuff.

Because that is the precise reason I quit reading it a couple of decades ago, and I started reading it again because Jim Butcher dragged me back in with Michael Carpenter. I asked Jim about that, and he said that, yes, he wrote Michael on purpose to be the opposite of the "evil Christian" trope, because he was tired of it too.

And now I'm writing SFF myself. Heck, my 12th story was just published yesterday. I've managed to slide in a couple of good-guy Christian characters into my own fiction here and there. A couple of them have even been published.

And Larry "kept me down" (because that's what he wants, is to keep lady writers down! At least, according to Damien Walter. Oh, wait, am I allowed to say "lady writers"?) by telling an editor to put my story at the top of his stack, and by introducing me to others he was talking to by saying "This is Julie Frost. She's awesome."

THAT BASTARD.

Comments

[chuck shingledecker (from livejournal.com)]

Why is there even an "other side of the aisle" in SF/F community at all? Why can't people just read the stories they love to read regardless of a person'a political stance? For example, I have no intention of supporting "line marriages" but I think The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is one of the classic pieces of literature from the 20th century.

If you like a book then read it. Unless the author has DONE something horrible (as opposed to just saying stuff I might disagree with) I will read his or her books based on the story. I do understand that others feel differently. And as long as people can articulate that in a civil manner, I'm totally fine with them not reading someone because they disagree with someone's politics. But in my estimation people will miss out on a lot of awesome fiction doing that.

People say things I disagree with all of the time and I know I say and write things people disagree with too. If all I ever did was reading authors whose political positions were just like my own, I wouldn't be reading anything since no has the exact same thought process I do.

But if someone has put some serious thought into it, and in their heart, cannot read someone they disagree with, more power to them. As long as it is not a knee jerk reaction, I'm all for whatever they decide. But most of the time, boycotts are knee jerk reactions. And it only hurts our community at large.

Just my fifty cents worth of morning wisdom. :)

[chuck shingledecker (from livejournal.com)]

Oh wow! Typos galore...LOL! That'll teach me to have "deep thoughts" before 7am. :)

[dogeat-underdog.livejournal.com]

I have said over and over that if I only consumed entertainment from people I agreed with, I would consume very little entertainment indeed. How ironic that the people who take great pride in their "tolerance," "diversity," and "inclusion" are the ones being intolerant, one-size-fits-all, and exclusive.

They hate people like me doubly, because I'm a woman and am therefore supposed to think exactly like Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton and Barbara Boxer. The fact that I'm a pro-life gun-toting conservative Christian makes me a Traitor to the Sisterhood.

Diversity is literally skin deep to these people.

(this is me, just too lazy to log out of the account I'm using to write a collaborative story with my roleplay partner)