Shenanigans in the publishing and writing worlds abound!

[foresthouse]

You guys, it is late and I am tired and so this will be short, but I felt the need to make sure EVERYONE KNOWS that:

@foresthouse: The publishing/writing world done gone crazy with douchebaggery today and @cleolinda summarized it all. Read this post: http://bit.ly/ekcvKj

Seriously, go read cleolinda's post and the accompanying links. Contained therein

Comments

[sucrelefey]

Oh just use privilege wash and cover all the bases.

[foresthouse]

Hah! Or majoritywash.

[sucrelefey]

But collectively the minorities outnumber the majority.
I feel like parodying a dish soap commercial. Privilege, you're soaking in it.

[particle_person]

The BioWare thing is so fantastic that it almost reads like something out of The Onion - it's like, this is too awesome, it can't be real. Is this really the same industry that invented Frag Dolls?
http://www.fragdolls.com/index.php/gamer-girls

[foresthouse]

And the best part, as someone else noted, is that it's coming from the company itself. Win.

[chocolate_frapp]

I always thought that Dilbert guy was an asshat and there's the proof. He can't even draw.

[foresthouse]

WORD.

[snapdragon76]

The more I hear about this whole Scott Adams things, the angrier I get. I mean, really? REALLY?!?!

Granted, I don't have a shit ton of degrees. It was hard enough for me to get my BA in Psychology. ESPECIALLY when I had people say I couldn't do it because of my learning disability (in math, in case you were wondering). And I wasn't really able to go to Grad school like I had wanted because of funds and health issues.

But you know what, I ain't no dummy and I will NOT be pandered to like I am mentally challenged or a four year old simply because of my gender. *RAGE*

And you're damn right I'm gonna be emotional about it because it fills me with rage and righteous indignation. Don't have us crawling backwards after the CENTURIES of us trying to move forward.

I am woman, hear me ROAR!

Sorry, didn't mean to rant...

[foresthouse]

Oh, rant away. I welcome intelligent ranting. (As opposed to vicious or troll ranting, I mean.)

And hey, I don't think anyone *needs* a degree to show they have reading comprehension. :) I just used that as a point to say there is really NO WAY I could have actually gotten through all of that schooling successfully without having that skill. Heh.

RRROOOOAAAARRRR!!! :)

[r_a_black]

Wait, I missed this part: Adams claimed we didn't understand due to lack of reading comprehension? WHAT? MY READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS ARE FIERCE, DON'T EVEN GO THERE.

[foresthouse]

Yeah, that was in his comment on the feministe website. He's such a douche.