Huh?

[sabotabby]

I missed the whole Requires Hate dust-up and now everyone is posting references to it. Is it the same as the Readercon dust-up?

Help, I am out of the loop and there is obvious drama.

Comments

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

Sorry, but declaring that one attempted suicide after a twitter interaction is emotional blackmail. (I'm assuming that it is true.) Someone that close to the edge-,an I saw the tweets as they were coming in- has no right to turn their crisis into a political point a month later. She certainly doesn't behave or speak as though anyone with whom she might interact is close to the edge, as Cat herself pointed out.

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

Holy crap. You were talking about something that actually happened? I thought that Liz was just using a rhetorical flourish and moving into the hyperbole.

Damn. The things I miss by getting bored with internet fights, feeling bad about myself for enjoying them and then moving on.

[dobrovolets.livejournal.com]

It's not the suicide attempt that's mockable. It's Liz trying to turn the suicide attempt into grounds for an indictment of RH that's mockable and mockworthy. The "goaded" party's prior criticism of catvalente is only brought into the picture by virtue of the decision by certain of Liz's supporters to try and use that (and RH's past praise of Cat's work) as a way of dragging her into the drama through guilt-by-association.

And it's shit like this that, as I've said before apropos of Readercon, makes me want to focus on crime fiction and "literary fiction" instead of SF and fantasy.

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

I hear that the tough guy vs. cozy mystery writers are at each others' throats.

Beyond that, I just don't think that Crime Fiction is going to be the oasis of sanity considering that Jame Elroy is one of the most popular ones and that fucker is proud of being a crazy misanthrope.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

I agree.