Re: SFWA Bulletin 202

[samhenderson]

Dear Mike Resnick and Barry Malzberg,

I am not anonymous. I am not particularly young, either, so I guess I’m not one of the unnamed, insufficiently aged, Y-chromosome lacking horde you’ve created as a target for your smug, self-satisfied dialog in the latest issue of the SFWA Bulletin.

What I am is weary. Weary enough that I’m tempted not to

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[lnhammer]

Sing it.

(nb: first link borked)

[samhenderson]

Laaa!

(I can't fix! so just cut and pasted)

[sartorias]

Yay!

Clapping hard. I am so glad that Rachel Swirsky is heading up a committee to investigate--I hope they get rid of those two drags on the Bulletin and totally rethink it.

[samhenderson]

It sounds like Things are Happening.

[samhenderson]

I think they are. Which is even more ironic - they claim oppression from the anonymous hordes that pay for membership in this org.

Much more exciting! I pre-ordered Delia's Shadow and I can't wait. I must. But I can't. You know.

[samhenderson]

Hopefully _way_ more than one!

[asakiyume]

It's taken until today for me to figure out what all the murmurings on Twitter were about. This bulletin goes out to members of the SFWA? Is there a place to read it online?

It's very infuriating--and plain wrong--when privileged people claim that the pointing out of that privilege is oppression. The equation of criticism with oppression is just bad math. They're not equal.

[samhenderson]

AT the bottom of this post are screencaps of the article http://radishreviews.com/2013/05/31/linkspam-53113-edition/

Not equal in any math in this universe.

[asakiyume]

I know you mentioned it in this post, but I couldn't help laughing awkwardly** at that first screencap with the words "lady writer" in it. Hell, why not just go for "authoress."

**The way I do when someone comes out with something kind of shocking and wrong, and I'm just... not knowing what to say.

[samhenderson]

It reminds of of the scene in Gaudy Night where Harriet objects to a newspaper using the term "undergraduette." And that's in the 1920s!

[queenoftheskies]

Thank you, Sam. I'm not a member, of course, but I've been reading reactions all over the web and am furious at the way those of you who are published writers, editors, and publishers are being treated on a daily basis.

[samhenderson]

Same way most women, I think - a casual and invisible constant.