Endangering somebody is okay when you do it under your real name
Picked from
wank_report.
In the beginning of the year,
Seeking-Avalon posted an open letter to Elizabeth Bear aka
matociquala about the representations of people of color in fiction. After Bear's initially reasonable response, a wank broke up among her supporters and friends and lead to
Writing The Other/Great Cultural Appropriation Debate of DOOM '09. One of the participants in the debate was
coffeeandink, who also posted a public warning about
Will Shetterly, who is a general fail person.
Now, Shetterly and Kathryn Cramer have been actively trying to out
coffeeandink's real life identity, with Cramer
making accusations about
coffeeandink hiding behind anonymity and Shetterly
making speculations about
coffeeandink's personal life and background.
coffeeandink has posted about this
in her journal.
Apparently, Shetterly and Cramer both backed off when warned. But now they expect
apologies for that.
ETA: Appeared to back off, actually. As told by
vito_excalibur, Shetterly is now banned from
Feminist SF Wiki for his efforts to reveal
coffeeandink's name.
Update: Kathryn Cramer has now password-protected her entire blog. There are screenshots of her post about
coffeeandink here and
here, with
coffeeandink's name removed. Earlier she redirected those who tried to access her blog to a site with possible malware.
Update 2:
greyorm is now intentionally outing
coffeeandink.
Update 3: Shetterly has opened his ignorant trap again.Update 4: Cramer is back to demanding an apology.Update 5: A new general summary by
rydra_wong.
arionhunter has made a post about
Elizabeth Bear's reaction.
Relevant postsGeneral summary of what's been going on.
rydra_wong has a link masterlist
here and more posts in her
race fail-tag.
coffeeandink has her own race fail-tag
here. Seeking-Avalon has a timeline about the original racefail
here.
And if you want some
comic relief,
mtgat has
Meta in Song.