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kestrellMaura McHugh's post questioning SFX's non-inclusion of women horror writers in it's horror edition
http://splinister.com/blog/?postid=586
Kes: Yes, if you can find a female "who considers herself to be a horror fan" to say that
there are few women creating horror
http://kestrell.livejournal.com/545305.html
and that
http://kestrell.livejournal.com/545711.html
there are few women horror fans
http://www.pretty-scary.net/
come to that, you are totally vindicated in your defense of your editorial integrity and knowledge of the field.
LJ user alexx_kay thought I was going to get all righteously indignant and ranty but you know what? That spark of snark is all I can summon up in refuting the poor excuse for doing research that Mr. Editor uses to defend his statement that there just aren't any really good women writers of horror fiction. The best of anthologies produced by Steve Jones and hey! Ellen Datlow, a woman! say different. The Stoker awards for horror say different. The World Fantasy Con says different. The fact that there is a horror award named the Shirley Jackson Award, and that a number of its recipients have been women, says different. And you know, most of those writers and editors have jobs they work 9 to 5 also, but of course, a man's work is so much more tiring than the woman's to whom he was responding, I can see why a man might be too tired to scrape up a pretense of politeness or even professional curiosity that he might have overlooked something.
That's okay, though, I understand that what I call a penis many males believe to be the all-powerful antenna that tunes them into the total wisdom of the universe thus justifying the belief that they could never be wrong.
Or even wrong wrong wrong wrongedy-wrong and totally full of bull***.
Okay, so I had another spark. I'm done now.
http://splinister.com/blog/?postid=586
Kes: Yes, if you can find a female "who considers herself to be a horror fan" to say that
there are few women creating horror
http://kestrell.livejournal.com/545305.html
and that
http://kestrell.livejournal.com/545711.html
there are few women horror fans
http://www.pretty-scary.net/
come to that, you are totally vindicated in your defense of your editorial integrity and knowledge of the field.
LJ user alexx_kay thought I was going to get all righteously indignant and ranty but you know what? That spark of snark is all I can summon up in refuting the poor excuse for doing research that Mr. Editor uses to defend his statement that there just aren't any really good women writers of horror fiction. The best of anthologies produced by Steve Jones and hey! Ellen Datlow, a woman! say different. The Stoker awards for horror say different. The World Fantasy Con says different. The fact that there is a horror award named the Shirley Jackson Award, and that a number of its recipients have been women, says different. And you know, most of those writers and editors have jobs they work 9 to 5 also, but of course, a man's work is so much more tiring than the woman's to whom he was responding, I can see why a man might be too tired to scrape up a pretense of politeness or even professional curiosity that he might have overlooked something.
That's okay, though, I understand that what I call a penis many males believe to be the all-powerful antenna that tunes them into the total wisdom of the universe thus justifying the belief that they could never be wrong.
Or even wrong wrong wrong wrongedy-wrong and totally full of bull***.
Okay, so I had another spark. I'm done now.
