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BOF ([info]bof) wrote in [info]unfunnybusiness,
@ 2009-03-03 18:13:00


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Endangering somebody is okay when you do it under your real name
Picked from [info]wank_report.

In the beginning of the year, Seeking-Avalon posted an open letter to Elizabeth Bear aka [info]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 [info]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 [info]coffeeandink's real life identity, with Cramer making accusations about [info]coffeeandink hiding behind anonymity and Shetterly making speculations about [info]coffeeandink's personal life and background. [info]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 [info]vito_excalibur, Shetterly is now banned from Feminist SF Wiki for his efforts to reveal [info]coffeeandink's name.

Update: Kathryn Cramer has now password-protected her entire blog. There are screenshots of her post about [info]coffeeandink here and here, with [info]coffeeandink's name removed. Earlier she redirected those who tried to access her blog to a site with possible malware.

Update 2: [info]greyorm is now intentionally outing [info]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 [info]rydra_wong. [info]arionhunter has made a post about Elizabeth Bear's reaction.

Relevant posts

General summary of what's been going on.

[info]rydra_wong has a link masterlist here and more posts in her race fail-tag. [info]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, [info]mtgat has Meta in Song.


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Re: Now is the winter of our FAILcontent
[info]kalakagatha
2009-03-04 03:07 pm UTC (link)
Well, since the whole brouhaha grew out of a compelling need to defend eBear by her friends or fans (even as eBear said that she welcomed the criticism and found it valid), it's not that surprising. A lot of the whole debate comes down to loyalty valued higher than valid discussion.

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Re: Now is the winter of our FAILcontent
[info]cairea
2009-03-04 06:42 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I should have sucked it up and gone and read the whole thing rather than flailing about here.

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Re: Now is the winter of our FAILcontent
[info]kalakagatha
2009-03-04 06:58 pm UTC (link)
Heh. No worries. I'm not sure anyone has managed to read the whole thing and followed every link and branch and thread of this. I've done a lot, and followed it pretty much from Bear's first post, and there are still huge gaps in my understanding of what went down.

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