Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: annoyed
  • Music: The sound of being annoyed.

Sometimes I am not the brightest bulb.

Having been provided with a handy link wrap-up of the way my post on the digital divide has spread, I made the natural "hey, let's open this box Pandora left me" mistake, and clicked some links. I quickly discovered that...

1. I am a man.

2. I am advocating that authors, without support from publishers, agents, or the reading public, continue to slam ourselves against the brick wall of martyrdom in order to keep a dying medium alive.

3. I am swathed in moralistic superiority, rather than genuinely concerned.

4. I hate all technology, and it's a miracle I was willing to write my post on a devil machine, rather than committing it to beautiful calligraphy and pasting my broadsheets all over town.

5. Poor people don't want to read anyway, so why am I bothering?

6. Saying that some poor people won't be able to afford an ebook reader, or wouldn't waste the money on one if they could, is just stupid, and I'm totally wrong.

7. Also, no one in America goes to bed hungry. American poverty is actually pretty nice.

8. Did I mention that I was a man?

9. My view of poverty is romanticized. (This was actually the one that really made me go "WHAT THE FUCK?!" out loud. Once the word "cockroaches" enters a discussion, the romance is dead.)

10. I'm an idiot.

Well, yes, point #10: I am an idiot, and should not have looked at those links. Thank you. As to the above, wow. The range of interpretation possible on the internet is incredible. Also, before you quote any of those things out of context (please don't), they're not true. And no, I'm not saying "wah, some people didn't agree with me." Lots of people didn't agree with me, and some of their disagreements were fascinating and thought-provoking. I'm saying "I do not have a penis, children go to bed hungry, and if you think my view of poverty is romantic, I do not think we should continue this conversation."

I hereby declare comment amnesty on this post. I am too tired to play nicely with the other children, and think that I should just stay in my room.

Cranky blonde is cranky. And armed.
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elialshadowpine

September 27 2011, 13:48:20 UTC 5 years ago

Some people just need to get a dose of humanity.

phantomdancer

September 27 2011, 15:15:38 UTC 5 years ago

For a man, you have rather nice breasts... I'm just saying...

What?!? You're not a man!?!

biomekanic

September 27 2011, 17:29:25 UTC 5 years ago

Geeze... when I met you, I thought you just had really ripped pecs.

Shows what I know...

las

September 27 2011, 18:40:04 UTC 5 years ago

I suppose that if poor choice of cranial location causes a person to try to read everything through the wall of his or her own rectum, these kinds of wild misinterpretations are inevitable ....

trialia

September 27 2011, 21:21:57 UTC 5 years ago

I have to say that, as a disabled person living in poverty who actually finds e-readers more physically accessible than paper books, I do feel rather belittled by the constant barrage of moral superiority from a lot of people who don't use e-readers. People seem to forget that some of us struggle to read paper books at all, sometimes, and that that doesn't make us bad people.

seanan_mcguire

September 27 2011, 21:29:16 UTC 5 years ago

And I quite get that; I hate unwarranted moral superiority. But I never claimed any, nor did I say that ereaders were bad. I explicitly stated that they were fabulous because they were more accessible to people who couldn't read paper books.

inkgrrl

September 28 2011, 00:27:49 UTC 5 years ago

*passes the candy corn*

mephron

September 28 2011, 07:30:54 UTC 5 years ago

People like that make me reconsider my 'avoid killing' rule.

("Avoid killing, even those who trespass against you. Those who see mercy as strength will respect you; those who see it as weakness will underestimate you; those who serve you as scientists will have a supply of test subjects.")

jongibbs

September 28 2011, 09:29:14 UTC 5 years ago

Didn't you also shoot Kennedy? I'm sure I read that somewhere too :)

PS: {{{{hugs}}}}

seanan_mcguire

September 28 2011, 14:54:10 UTC 5 years ago

DAMMIT NOW I HAVE TO SHOOT YOU TOO.
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