The Eye of the Storm

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No.

No.

More like annoying

I hate this so much

I feel sorry for everyone who can’t appreciate this.

Heck no.

I love the photography, but it’s pretty sad if a kid gets that upset over candy.

I’m going to have to agree with the above comments. The photographer didn’t actually do anything to hurt any of these children - she gave them a candy, took it away and took a couple photos, then gave it back. This is no different than a parent handing a candy to a child, realizing a piece of plastic wrapper is still attached and taking it away to remove the plastic hazard, then giving it back. This is how kids learn to deal with minor inconveniences in life - it’s the ones who aren’t allowed to cry like this as children who cry like this as adults over every little disappointment.

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The editor of the Science Fiction Writers’ Association bulletin has resigned over an Internet backlash against sexism in the magazine.

Wowwww I was expecting this to be more of the same stuff you always see in these kind of argument over impractical fantasy armour and that kind of thing, but this is some serious boys club Mad Men bullshit.

THIS IS A MUST READ

i just spent the last hour reading various responses to this SFWA debacle. i had no idea how unbalanced the publishing world was, or how much sexism published female authors have to undergo without complaint lest their careers suffer the price. i saw a posts filled with comments about how sci-fi was in danger of being too politically correct and safe by GASP treating women as actual people worthy of respect, which i find to be insulting not only to us quietly dignified barbie dolls but also to the male readers and writers, because man do they give men a bad name. 

fingers crossed the old guard dies out soon and the new guard of young misogynist assholes gets stamped out, because women make up most of the book purchasing demographic (and that’s where the real power lies, isn’t it?), and won’t settle for second class citizenship any longer. women of sci-fi and fantasy are here to stay.

i’m gonna go take a two-hour angry nap now.

this article had a lot to cover but i really wanted to get across just how deeply, deeply entrenched the sci-fi community is with this “old guard” mentality and how many fissures of conflict and tension there seem to be as a result—everything from the entire readercon board having to resign last year over their unwillingness to actually apply their zero tolerance sexual harassment policy, and the discussions that ensued, to Harlan Ellison’s losing no stature in the community after his infamous onstage boob-grab of one of the most respected women in sci-fi. To all the best-of sci-fi lists that kept continually excluding female authors.

And note that readercon image for the article I linked: “This is your father’s readercon.” 

If the sci-fi publishing world is ever going to be yours or mine, it’s going to take a lot more direct challenges like these to all the assumptions that are keeping “your father’s” ideas around.

Reblogging for added commentary.

geekygothgirl:

It makes me angry that I have to do this, but I’m going to do it anyway. Last week at Denver Comic Con, I went to a panel on women and body image in comics that I had very high hopes for. It was modded by the same woman who’d modded the very excellent Geek Girl panel earlier that day, and had two…