I think I just threw up in my mouth a little

[fictional]

via rm: I found this delightful piece of nausea inducing vitriol from the mouth of author, John C. Wright. It's one of the most offensive things I've ever read. More so even than Orson Scott Card, which is saying something.

It's also really charming to see names I recognize from various fandoms (Star Wars being a particular offender) agreeing with this crap. I knew these folk wrote het, but I didn't realize it was from hate as opposed to "I just happen to ship this."

faris_nallaneen: we were eying some of his books the other day in B&N. I think we can safely say avoid, yes?

If you too wish to express dismay with the power of your pocketbook, here's a list of all his works.

Comments

[lefaym.livejournal.com]

OMG, that Wright thing: I'm just sitting here going D: -- it makes me feel a bit icky just knowing that I share the planet with someone like him, and the people agreeing with him in comments.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The hordes of agreeers just make it that much more icktastic.

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

I kept reading expecting it to be some really complicated form of sarcasm. Like... okay, and the punchline is where? For some reason I read the link at the top as being to the offending article, and thought what you'd linked me to was someone (ham-fistedly) making fun of the person spewing the homophobic bullshit. And I was like... wow. Okay, so that's the characture of what these people say, I wonder what the actual link says. Then I realized it *was* the rant.

And felt like barfing in my mouth a little.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

You know, I was expecting the same thing? Its tonal quality really makes it sound like caricature. And then it's....not.

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

If I *were* going to bother to engage, I point out that there isn't a single *sin* a homosexual can perpetrate upon or with a member of their gender that a heterosexual *can't* perpetrate upon a member of the opposite sex.

Except for docking. And I don't think they cover docking in the bible. ... Though, considering the whole circumcision thing, I'd wager they're against it.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Right? I mean the part where he's all like: Then someone tried to convince me that two lesbians licking each other in the crotch was the same in all ways, just as sacred, just as romantic, just as normal, just as beautiful as Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Iseult, Micky and Minnie, Adam and Eve, Jove and Juno, Father Sky and Mother Earth, me and my wife. (http://johncwright.livejournal.com/269139.html?thread=8206931#t8206931)

and I'm like, excuse me? Since when is crotch licking a "homosexual perversion"? I feel sorry for the wife. Except I don't.

[sykii.livejournal.com]

Also, Micky and Minnie are totally my ideal of romantic sensuality.
*headdesk*

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

I know! They are a Sacred Marriage, they are.

DUDE. ~one of these thing is not like the other. lalala~

[sykii.livejournal.com]

"And on the far wall of the palace complex, you'll see a traditional rendition of the hieros gamos, complete with puffy white gloves and semi-anthropomorphic dog attendants. The Goddess is identifiable by her polka-dot bow, while her youthful consort, his virile blood soon to fertilize the lap of the Mother Goddess, is dressed in the ceremonial red shorts with giant white buttons."

SRSLY. WAT.

[sykii.livejournal.com]

Also, I have a theory that you can tell how much someone hates sex by how often they use the word "crotch."

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

dude, I fell off my chair. Ow. laughing so hard it's difficult to type.

I love you.

[sykii.livejournal.com]

One endeavors to give satisfaction, Sir.
Also, shouldn't you have a seatbelt for that thing by now?

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Yes, and something to keep my spleen in. Alas. The healthcare system will not subsidize.

[sykii.livejournal.com]

You do have rather an antic spleen. Perhaps we can rig something up with duct tape and turquoise fringe?

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

I think Antic Spleen should be the name of our band. Or possibly a blog. I will play the tambourine.

[sykii.livejournal.com]

You can also play the triangle and the whip-crack-noise-thing that Luke played.
Can our first album be called Indifferent Gonad? Please?

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[askeladden.livejournal.com]

You win the whole goddamn galaxy and a bag of BBQ Fritos.

[sykii.livejournal.com]

Narsty. Yet delicious!

[askeladden.livejournal.com]

Between him holding up Jove and Juno as paragons of romantic love and saying that Oedipus and Jocasta are more normal and natural than queers because hey, at least they can have children, I'm even more skeeved out than I was by his original post. Please tell me he and his wife are childless.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Nope, don't think they are. childless, that is.

http://arhyalon.livejournal.com/75688.html

[askeladden.livejournal.com]

OH SHIT OH SHIT SHE'S A JOHNNY

OH SHIT

DISASSOCIATE DISASSOCIATE

SORRY YOU GUYS

WE ARE SERIOUSLY NOT ALL LIKE THIS HORRIBLE WOMAN

ARGH

[sykii.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

I..uh... had noticed that. Sorry!

[sykii.livejournal.com]

To be fair, they're *really* not all like that. They were very welcoming to me, a CUNY pleb ;)

[askeladden.livejournal.com]

There were some racists and homophobes at SJC, no question. Mostly Catholics, because the Evangelicals generally went to different schools. But people called them on that shit, both in and out of class. It still makes me feel gross and dirty to know that she went there (and that, as of press time, Gillen is on her friends list. *eyeroll*). Just... Ugh. Argh. Why couldn't they have gone to Thomas Aquinas instead, and taken tests and played football and stayed off the steps of the opposite sex's dorm?!

[sykii.livejournal.com]

Gillen will always be more concerned with being a contrarian than with bothering to be a decent person.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

And he goes on to say he doesn't like adultery! But mentions not only Jove and Juno, but Tristan and Iseult.

[sykii.livejournal.com]

Don't you know it's not adultery if you're, like, totally in love and shit.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Do drugged love potions count?

[sykii.livejournal.com]

OBVS! Roofies == destiny.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Let's go smoke some American Spirits!

[sykii.livejournal.com]

Hah!
Aaaand somehow we've come back around to Greek Tragedy. Funny, that.

[sykii.livejournal.com]

Ew! Is it just me, or can you see him hunched over his keyboard, spittle flying, as he types this?
As far as I know, I have never subsidized his existence, and I will be sure to avoid doing so in future. Thanks for the heads up.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Not just you. Bleh.

On a cheerier note, playgrounds!

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

I've never read work by that... person. And now I never will. What a vile and hateful little man.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

You've hit the adjectives on the nose!

[scarlettgirl.livejournal.com]

...

Does anyone else feel the oncoming "It was all just a social experiment!"?

I feel in desperate need of a hot shower. My internets have been splooged upon.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Honestly, at this point, that would feel better than the icky vileness that this dude seems so freaking proud of.

With you on the hot shower. Eeesh.

[curriejean.livejournal.com]

He had me at, "as if this abomination is normal and natural and worthy of no comment." I closed the window. The guy obviously doesn't deserve the attention he's gotten.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Yah. But the part where he claimed that Mickey and Minnie Mouse were all that is good and sexually romantic in the world, was .... mindboggling in its crazy.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Wow. What an utter TOOL.

The essay and the first page of responses horrified me, but from about the second page on the responses cheered me up considerably.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

I didn't read the second page, but just did. I feel a bit better.

[sykii.livejournal.com]

It also occurs to me that I've heard this "Diversity = Perversity" thing like a billion times lately, and never before a month ago. Did all the bigots in the world just figure out that the two words rhyme? Do they all feel terribly clever about this? Is this a talking point? Are all right-wing talking points now to be delivered in rhyme? Does this explain Bobby Jindal's elocution style? I MUST KNOW.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

My Red Telephone to the Center of the NeoCon movement says, "yes! (regress.)"

[sykii.livejournal.com]

Anybody want a peanut?

[rahirah]

Ew.