Open-Source Boob Project DO NOT WANT

[elbales]

AUGH
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME

Briefly, some people at a con came up with this marvelous idea of asking women, "May I touch your breasts?" It really does sound like it was a positive experience for the original, very small group of people, but there is just so much potential for huge ugliness inherent in the idea. At least the original poster followed up to say that he realized this was potentially a Very Bad Thing and please do not do this, because. But still. Yuck.

Personally, anyone asking this question of me would get a basilisk glare and an icy "How dare you!", followed by an irate call to Security. As lizbee put it, if you have any desire to father children, you'd best not ask.

. . . And then someone linked to OH JOHN RINGO NO in the comments and my head exploded. Srsly. I am appalled that anyone would publish such revolting, pig-ignorant, misogynist tripe. I must be sadly sheltered.

Also, I now have a strong urge to fly to New York and bitchslap Jim Baen. I will refrain only because his company has recently bought work from Sharon Lee and Steve Miller and they are pure win.

I have to go to work now.

Goddammit, I NEED BLEACH.
 

Comments

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

I think maybe what skeeves me most about this latest tempest teapot is the number of guys who are clearly getting off discussing and describing their personal acquaintance with their 'personal access' breasts and just generally talking breasts with women.

That wasn't what most skeeved me in the first place, which is that this is yet another bad PR occasion for the field of SF/F -- even if this was a computer and game con.

A lot of people do not like con culture, which is identified with the Field, becaused it is so filled with this kind of immature lack of impulse control. If it had stayed with the goofball's friends where it was at the convention, fine -- but he had to enter the online world with Big Announcement that he and some of his skeeve friends had gotten to touch Breasts! in Public! And this is just such a level of fabulosity we must forewith go out and spread the world to world and Do It some more!

See above -- the skeeve factor of all these guys talking about breasts in public venues

Yuck.

Love, C

[ladyniko.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that has been making the rounds allllll around LJ. I first saw it a few days ago and while it turned around completely from what the guy rather intended, still it wasn't a smart thing to do, because there are just too many creepazoids in the general public.

Everyone else has been far more eloquent than I about it, so I haven't said anything.

just so you know

[axolotl9.livejournal.com]

John Ringo freely admits that the Paladin of Shadows books (referenced in the OH JOHN RINGO NO post) are crap, written to produce a steady paycheck while he works on his other series.

he has also expressed amazement that Jim Baen bought the first book (and only the first book - he died before any of the others were published) and agreed to publish it.

Ringo's other books aren't that bad (with a couple of periodic exceptions), even though he does tend to make 90% of his female characters large-chested blondes with uncanny weapons skills. (This may, however, be a joke on his part... with Ringo it can be hard to tell.)

And if you ever wanted to know what Buffy the Vampire Slayer would be like as a fundamentalist Christian housewife (with blonde hair, a large chest and uncanny weapons skills), read "Princess of Wands." A book that is so over-the-top that it includes most of Ban's writers (including Ringo himself) getting killed by a summoned demon at a con.
Freakin' hilarious.