Manthology fail- Because real scifi is written with the peen

[maevele]

OH FOR FUCKS GODDAMN FUCKING ASSBITING SAKE.

www.sfsignal.com/archives/2009/08/toc-the-mammoth-book-of-mindblowing-sf-edited-by-mike-ashley/index.html


REALLY? I NEED BIGGER CAPSLOCK.

And maybe mr difilippo is defending it so hard because if it weren't all white boys he might not have made the cut, if he were up against, say connie willis or octavia butler.

and, no one is saying 'omg, mike ashley hates the wimminzes!'  people are saying, 'maybe, as a white guy, what he finds to be the most mindblowing stories is subconsciously biased towards other white boys, and unless he doesn't care about appealing to a wider audience than hisself and other whiteboys, maybe he should think outside his own skin for a goddamn minute'    If I were putting together an anthology of the most mind blowing skiffy, and realized that every story I picked was written my someone in my demographic, I'd like to think that i would recognizing that i was cherry picking based on my personal tastes, which are influenced by my personal biases,  and unless the anthology was designed for me and mine alone, that i would need to broaden my selections based on more objective standards than my own biased tastes.
but apparently it's an insult to suggest that someone may be influenced by their own tastes and that those tastes are shaped by their biases and society.


I'm just gonna go back to swearing quietly in the corner, because I ain't gonna get through to any of the motherfuckers that don't get it.

especially not with this tone.

Comments

[were_duck]

I know, it's so horridible! Mammothfail 2.0, as sasha_feather said.

[(Anonymous)]

can't believe i've never used or seen the word "manthology" before. that is so useful! White Manthology and #whitemanthology will be new tags... that I wish we never had to use again but that likely we will.

[maevele.livejournal.com]

I can't take credit, someone used the term over on either sf singal or in Tempest's space.

but I like it.

[yagathai.livejournal.com]

Man. It's not that I agree with Tempest (http://yagathai.livejournal.com/965879.html), but DiFilippo is just digging himself deeper and deeper. Maybe he ought to consider that being a huge prick to a lot of people in a public space might not be great for his career?

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

Gee, yanno if one puts on tinfoil one might think they did it this way on purpose to make that irrelevant to sf/f part of humanity po-ed.

Still, it seems beyond comprehension otherwise, doesn't it?

Love, C.

[shweta-narayan.livejournal.com]

I'm just gonna go back to swearing quietly in the corner, because I ain't gonna get through to any of the motherfuckers that don't get it.

Yeah but they're not the only reason to speak up, after all. Though they'd like to think so, I'm sure.

[la-luna-llena.livejournal.com]

ridiculous. who's the publisher?

"the peen"

[kynn.livejournal.com]

psst, some men may not have penises, and some women may have them.

careful, please, on reducing people to their genitalia -- that causes unintentional collateral to some of us trans people.

Re: "the peen"

[maevele.livejournal.com]

damn, you're right, and i should know better.