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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
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4:04p - Oh, those wacky kids!
Okay, half of you have probably seen this by now, but in the interests of posterity:
In his blog, Neil Gaiman posts a letter he got from a sixteen-year-old girl named Angie, chastising him for putting (oh noes) a sex scene in his book Stardust, along with his characteristically civil and sensible response.
And the LJ feed explodes!
( Fuck you, Angie! )
( And the backlash )
Blissfully unaware of all this brouhaha (OR IS HE?!) Gaiman posts a follow-up the next day, in which "Liz" writes:
( Stardust was one thing, but American Gods really *was* porny! )
And here it gets really fun, as in one corner saltsweetbitter waxes vitriolic about book burners omg! and in the other, redlion1904 whinges: Good to know that the Gestapo that reads this LJ don't think girls have the right to be embarassed by something they read. Hate to respect her freedom of thought or anything.
Obviously somebody's being oppressed here, but whether it's Neil Gaiman or his more delicate fangirls remains to be proven.
(I hear tell that syndicated feed posts expire at some point, so here are furls for those coming late to the party: part one and part deux.)
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