Neo_prodigy silences a feminist critic
Over at LJ's inclusive_geeks community, korinna posts about neo_prodigy's misogyny, not only in his personal posts, but in his How To Write Slash posts and his published novel. She includes a large document of examples of his misogyny from the latter. Tee document can be downloaded here.

Why do you have to download it?

Because neo_prodigy responded like all good professionals to criticism and had LJ suspend the post, and when it was transferred to Wordpress, had that suspended as well..

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full_metal_ox
2011-08-20 12:05 am UTC (link)

Is this related to the "here are my favorite books; appparently I never read anything outside of high school English" thing?

That's actually not the worst-case scenario--it could be born of a "I snoozed through high-school English and based my reports on Cliff's Notes, but there are certain works that I keep seeing referenced in the media, so why not use those, since they're obviously the gold standard?" thing. Therefore, psychology equals Freud (perhaps Jung if you want to establish that your character is learned enough to have two whole points of reference); classical music equals Beethoven; painting equals the Mona Lisa and Picasso; literature equals Shakespeare.

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cleolinda
2011-08-20 12:56 am UTC (link)

"She settled down to read her favorite Shakespeare play," or similar, was something I saw in writing workshops a lot. That, and "his favorite music: smooth jazz." (If the character was more intellectual: classical.) It's like, you know that [Most Famous Thing] is Quality, and so your character liking it means they are automatically awesome, whether you can name any specifics or not.

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	phosfate 2011-08-23 08:27 pm UTC (link)
	On the other hand, bonus points if she's reading Titus Andronicus. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	full_metal_ox 2011-08-23 11:37 pm UTC (link)
	Or if he's listening to a classical piece by Frank Zappa. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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