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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Re: (Roaches. Y'know, this might even be triggering?)

filkferengi

October 6 2011, 03:57:29 UTC 5 years ago

I didn't have posters for them to hide behind. My favorite thing to do was sneak into the kitchen, turn on the light unexpectedly, & drown the smaller ones in the sink. Just a week or two made a huge difference in the population--the visible portion, anyway.

Re: (Roaches. Y'know, this might even be triggering?)

archangelbeth

October 7 2011, 20:14:57 UTC 5 years ago

Oh no! You were breeding them for intelligence!

...I never saw "smaller" ones. Austin water-roaches come in one size: Skateboard.

Re: (Roaches. Y'know, this might even be triggering?)

filkferengi

October 7 2011, 20:55:00 UTC 5 years ago

The Texas ones almost made me question the shoe position, as some of them were almost bigger than the shoes. I knew some fellows who used to flip them onto their backs to watch them break-dance, then laminate them in clear contact paper & mail them to their girlfriends. To think I used to think I was morbid, because of liking Edgar Allen Poe as a child!