Also, just for the record, the hysterical women comment didn't bother me much, because while I didn't love it - second hand embarrassment! - I took it as one of those things you say without thinking when people are hassling you. I can't say I would have reacted much better. And I get where he's coming from - I'm queer, one of my flatmates is gay, I have very few straight friends and apart from parts of my family and work/uni I don't really have to watch what I say, and we say un-pc stuff to each other all the time. It's that safe space thing and sometimes, well, you slip and it's ouch because obviously there's a difference between banter with your friends and say, public speaking. And while actors and the like are, I think, more used to watching what they say because public image is this huge thing, writers tend to lack that filter. Idk. It's not a huge deal to me, people aren't perfect all the time, etc.
That fic thing though. Wow. I had no idea what you were talking about, so I looked into it and daaamn I wish I hadn't. Bad taste in my mouth now.
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Date: 2010-01-13 09:19 pm (UTC)Also, just for the record, the hysterical women comment didn't bother me much, because while I didn't love it - second hand embarrassment! - I took it as one of those things you say without thinking when people are hassling you. I can't say I would have reacted much better. And I get where he's coming from - I'm queer, one of my flatmates is gay, I have very few straight friends and apart from parts of my family and work/uni I don't really have to watch what I say, and we say un-pc stuff to each other all the time. It's that safe space thing and sometimes, well, you slip and it's ouch because obviously there's a difference between banter with your friends and say, public speaking. And while actors and the like are, I think, more used to watching what they say because public image is this huge thing, writers tend to lack that filter. Idk. It's not a huge deal to me, people aren't perfect all the time, etc.
That fic thing though. Wow. I had no idea what you were talking about, so I looked into it and daaamn I wish I hadn't. Bad taste in my mouth now.