tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463512.post111177550830431811..comments2024-01-01T09:20:22.363-05:00Comments on Brutal Women: What the Hell *is* This?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463512.post-1111878297491575092005-03-26T18:04:00.000-05:002005-03-26T18:04:00.000-05:00It is ever thus. Change is hard for the old fashio...It is ever thus. Change is hard for the old fashioned prelates who have held the keys to the kingdom for a very long time. It was the same with country music 50 years ago. No women really broke through until Pasty Cline. Ditto for women flddlers & jazz and Blues players 50 years before that. SF is such a very strange place. It's frontier fiction of a certain limited type. <BR/><BR/>But even in Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463512.post-1111782077254926502005-03-25T15:21:00.000-05:002005-03-25T15:21:00.000-05:00He's fucktard.But, yes, the co-option of "PC" lang...He's fucktard.<BR/><BR/>But, yes, the co-option of "PC" language in order to "spin" what would now be considered something very like bigoted, intolerat speech ("We write too much about gender" as code for "Women write too much about themselves and their *feelings*. We should have less women writers and/or writing about women and their experiences") really bugs me. Obviously, he's not the first toAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463512.post-1111778914666475592005-03-25T14:28:00.000-05:002005-03-25T14:28:00.000-05:00"those on the Left who have the power to punish us..."those on the Left who have the power to punish us for what we think"<BR/><BR/>Wow, it's a superpower I didn't even know about!<BR/><BR/>The use of the term "gender" in things like this is so disingenuous- it's first cousin to the use of the term "urban" in, say, "urban music". "Gender" becomes a verbal proxy under which offensive things can be said about women, or speech about women can be Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com