Tuesday News: Dropbox drops files; YouTube stars getting book deals; SFF author revealed as controversial blogger; and Catherine Roach on Romance “claims”
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Heads Up: Dropbox Bug is Eating Files – So apparently Dropbox is actually deleting files, and while the company is trying to remedy the issue (and is offering a year of Dropbox Pro as compensation), they have apparently informed those they believe have thus far been affected:
Hi,
We’re reaching out to let you know about an issue affecting Selective Sync that caused some files to be deleted from Dropbox. This problem occurred when the Dropbox desktop application shut down or restarted while users were applying Selective Sync settings.
Based on our investigation of this issue, we think you may be among the small number of users who were affected.
If you haven’t used Selective Sync before, you can stop reading now because you weren’t affected.
If you have used Selective Sync, we wanted to check whether your Dropbox may have been affected. We’ve set up a personalized web page where you can see if there are files that shouldn’t have been deleted and try to restore them. –The Digital Reader
From YouTube Stars, Literary Lions – That sound you hear is the reverberation of my skull as it slams rhythmically against the wall. Granted, some of these YouTube celebrities are quite talented (some of the young women who have built an audience by being funny, clever, and intelligent are serving as fantastic role models), but do we have to offer EVERYONE who makes a mark in visual media a book deal?
Publishers seeking the next hit author have a new hunting ground: YouTube.
A wave of titles written by YouTube personalities is hitting the shelves this month as book publishers bet on the power of online media. They made a similar bet several years ago on books by popular food bloggers, such as Ree Drummond and Julie Powell.
“The Pointless Book,” an activity workbook by charming, goofy U.K. video blogger Alfie Deyes is coming soon. So, too, is a book by comedian and YouTube star Grace Helbig on how to pretend to be grown up. Two titles based on popular YouTube series for teens also are planned. –Wall Street Journal
Benjanun Sriduangkaew’s blogging past [my title] – This is an incredibly controversial revelation, with complex implications for the SFF community, and by extension, other writing and reading communities. SFF author Benjanun Sriduangkaew has recently been revealed to be the same person who reviewed and blogged as Requires Only That You Hate (note: Mamatas was given permission to post the information from the author herself). Now, what makes this story more explosive than the usual ‘person who wrote stingingly negative reviews is now an author, oh, and by the way she’s a woman’ controversy, is that RH (also known as Winterfox on LJ) went beyond even the most generous boundaries of serious snark, and the question of whether her past should affect her writing career is seriously being debated online right now. I have to say that I am very uncomfortable with the idea of blackballing a writer for her behavior toward other writers, especially since I think there’s a gender double-standard at work. At the same time, I understand those who might boycott her fiction given the, uh, extremity of her alleged reactions to other authors. –Ello (@mamatas) and James Nicoll
Noted with Interest: The Creed of Romance? – A post by Catherine Roach, literature professor and Romance novelist, on what she perceives to be the “nine central claims made by the romance narrative.” Eric Selinger reposted the list from another blog, and he also mentions and links to Amber Belldene’s fascinating post ,”The Secret Sermon in Every Romance Novel,” which I’ve been thinking about but haven’t yet put together any coherent thoughts worthy of articulation. Still, check out both. Here are Roach’s first three “claims:”
1. It is hard to be alone. We are social animals. Most people need and want love, of some kind. Amid all the possibilities for love as philia (friendship) and agape (spiritual or selfless love), the culture often holds up eros or romantic partner love as an apex of all that love can be and do.
2. It is a man’s world. Women generally have less power, fewer choices, and suffer from vulnerability and double standards. They often get stuck looking after men or being overlooked by men.
3. Romance is a religion of love. Romance entails belief in the power of love as a positive orienting force. Love functions as religion, as that which has ultimate meaning in people’s lives. –Teach Me Tonight
Apparently Requires you Hate has made personal threats, and rape threats/jokes about others. I wouldn’t want to touch her books with a ten foot pole. Though even though she seems to be a disgusting human being not sure that excuses her being doxxed. Also I think there is a difference saying I as a reader wouldn’t want to read her than saying no one should publish her.
I just want to clarify that Sriduangkaew gave Nick Mamatas permission to reveal her dual identity: https://twitter.com/tinytempest/status/521767963868016641. There was, however, apparently some pressure that was going on behind the scenes to deprive her of editorial acquisition and support based on her blogging past. Which is yet another reason this is such an important issue. We’ve had these types of issues crop up in Romance, as well, and I’ve always found them incredibly troubling, especially when the criteria is negative reviewing pitched as unprofessional and non-supportive of other authors (remember the “Dixieland Mafia” incident?)
@Michelle: This not actually true. RequiresHate has been posting her screenshots of email exchanges on twitter and it’s fairly obvious that Tricia Williams has exaggerated their communication.
People don’t like RH’s harsh words in reviews (and she is often very harsh, often for comedic effect). That’s fine. What’s not fine is that if this were a man there wouldn’t even be a question about whether or not this was “shock humor” or “personal eccentricity.” Because she’s a woman and WOC at that, she’s an easy target for people whose feelings she hurt by not liking their books to lash back at.
@astefs – No, it is true. Of course, since WF/RH went on a deleting spree, a lot of the evidence has been lost.
And please, let’s not act as though she’s only being targeted because she’s a WOC. Many of the people upset with her are WOC themselves, including yours truly. She also targeted fellow WOC and was quite fond of playing the more-Asian-than-thou game at the expense of diaspora. Not cool.
I was actually on good terms with her back when she was just Winterfox on LJ and often agreed with the gist of a lot of her criticism, but seeing her destroy the 50books-poc community and generally act like a toxic person all around, which included hurling abuse/insults at people for simply daring to disagree with her, I backed away slowly.
@astefs: It’s not just about the reviews; before her blog (and some during it), RH/Winterfox had a chilling effect on various fan communities, especially going after people who posted positive reviews of books that she didn’t like. I saw her get banned from more than one community for personal attacks. The exchanges on 50books-poc were particularly acrid, with a side dose of dish-it-out-but-not-take-it.
On the “if she were a man” front, I’ve always wondered who else in the sf/f fan/reviewing community posted with a similar style and yet ‘got away’ with it.
I don’t think she should be blackballed; if she can write, go for it. But I tend to consider the linking of her two identities more akin to finding out someone’s current fandom ID was a notorious past wanker, be wary. And it also makes her currently presented literary biography a very carefully crafted rewrite, which I find interesting in the area of self-presentation and how authors do it.
“On the “if she were a man” front, I’ve always wondered who else in the sf/f fan/reviewing community posted with a similar style and yet ‘got away’ with it.”
Right? Give me the name of a man who made comments to other posters about getting raped by dogs or having acid thrown in their faces…
And yes, I realize a lot of guys out there do still make stupid rape jokes and the like – the Internet can really be a cesspool – but I’m thinking of prominent reviewers/bloggers/writers that were on par with RH.
God, Winterfox? Talk about a blast from the past; I haven’t thought about her in years. What an asshole.
Well, I guess I’m sort of glad that someone I knew back in ye olden days of Livejournal being a good place to talk fanfic and sff has a career in sff nowadays, but I won’t be buying from her and can’t help but hope the shit being flung sticks to her. Single most consistently toxic person to a community I have ever known. Hope she’s improved, but it doesn’t sound like it.
I believe the victims that said they were traumatized by her abuse. Rape threats are never ok.
I know absolutely nothing about the Winterfox debate other that what was posted here. But I have to say the evidence is damning. I don’t care whether she’s a man or a woman, some of the stuff she was saying is unacceptable for anyone to say- and I’m VERY tolerant of going for the joke, no matter how far you need to go. I am all for truth talk and a reviewer’s right to their honest opinion. But you also can’t be as hateful towards people as she was and expect people to just forget about it.
I do think she should be able to go forward and find publishers based upon the strength of future books, just like any other author. Although IMHO this controversy will always follow her, proving detrimental to the number of books she sells.
I was around on LJ in various book communities when Winterfox was active there, and boy, she was … memorable for the amount of hate that she spread wherever she went. Not to mention that she pretty much killed a lot of good book discussion communities with her screeds, spewing bile and silencing people and discussions for fear of setting her off.
The thought that this is coming back to haunt her… well, it does not make me sad.
Here is what I do not understand: we must believe people who say RH harassed them and said reprehensible things… but we don’t extend RH that same courtesy when she says that these anons are lying, and as a result she’s getting stalked and harassed … why, exactly? Because she was a jerk on LJ ten years ago, when she was a kid? So was Naomi Novik, to name another jerk-in-blogging-persona, and I am unaware of editorial calls to blackball her.
@astefs: One, she wasn’t a “kid”, her abusive tendencies went on well into her late twenties. This is from someone who has witnessed her in action very recently.
Two, I don’t believe she made any announcements about anon harassment – links if you have them? So far it seems that she locked down her twitter, purged the most damning entries from the RH blog and sent a friend to defend her in Nicoll’s lj. That friend did make some claims about poison pen letters, but they linked those to actual names, so it doesn’t seem to be the same thing. If Sriduangkaew claims those anons are lying… well, I’d like to see that post before I say anything.
@astefs: Because this was not ten years ago. Much of this was at most three years ago, when she was apparently well into her 20’s. Identical behavior extends back over ten years, to before she started using social justice rhetoric as justification. Novik does not, in fact, have a reputation as a longstanding troll and destroyer of communities. Rather, in fan circles she’s largely seen as someone who creates and nurtures them. With winterfox, there is also a firsthand account from Matamas, ostensibly a supporter of hers, that she has previously falsely accused people of perpetrating racist abuse against her because she wanted to discredit their truthful connection of her identities. You can read it here: http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/5121496.html?thread=96267992#t96267992 That does rather damage her credibility for other claims of persecution.
@alia: My read of that post of Mamatas’s is that RH was saying that connecting Bees and RH SPECIFICALLY was a racist claim because assuming that these two Thai women must be the same person is kind of a racist thing to say, and yeah, that’s was a terrible thing to do but I find *that specific point* valid if rather underhanded and self-serving.
I wasn’t talking about nurturing versus destroying fandom communities with NN; it was that she has most definitely been an abrasive jerk to people in the past under her fandom identity — many of us have, I’m sure — but that’s my point; it’s totally valid for *interpersonal* relationships to suffer as a result of past jerkitudes but I find the abuse and professional vitriol RH is suffering with really scary. Releasing her personal information on FFA is *not okay*, for anyone, and “oh, it’s RH, so she deserves it” is absolutely terrifying. So many people are dancing in the schadenfreude of what they see as her comeuppance that people are ignoring that this is a woman put now in real physical danger because she was mean to people on the internet.
Sometimes the acronyms I find here, I can figure out, but… what’s a WOC?
@RayC – WOC = woman of color
Oops sorry, I’ve only accessed LJ to locate specific ‘free’ stories so missed the angst and so don’t know the details of this story. I picked up on the gender but not the WOC context, and I’m in a country where it’s not a used phrase. [email protected] I enjoy these discussions because they highlight the subversive process of “putting women in their place”, which in turn makes me look at general news stories about women from a different perspective.
Aw, I always enjoyed RH when she turned the hate cannon on romance. I’m surprised that people are saying she threatened them. She was nasty, mean and rude as hell, but she seemed to have a sense of justice.
Sad to hear this story about her.
@astefs: Okay, first things first, her personal information is not on FFA anywhere. In fact, mentioning her author persona by name in connection with RH is banned until such time as she personally, explicitly makes it okay to draw that connection. FFA takes a hardline stance on outing.
It is not a racist connection to make if it is made for reasons other than ethnicity. Since there is literally no evidence that that was ever the reasoning of any party, suggesting otherwise is a straw argument designed to discredit them.
The vitriol toward Winterfox in the parts of fandom where Novik is also well-known is a direct result of her behavior as a community member which has never been more than anti-social at best. This isn’t about being a jerk occasionally, when she loses her temper. This is about having a default persona that goes beyond abrasive and into bullying, to the point where she had a chilling effect on entire communities. She lashes out at anyone she perceives as disagreeing, and her favorite tactic is race-based intimidation. I know this is a really loaded statement, but in a rare case of someone taking screencaps, we actually do have documentation of her telling a Cambodian woman to look up “white woman’s tears” during a disagreement. She has also told Asian-Americans that they are insufficiently Asian to have an opinion, including the infamous “Asian-Asian” comment. She’s also a big fan of making statements with obvious, insulting implications and then insisting that she bears no culpability because she never actually said the thing people are taking offense to. So yes, of course people in the part of fandom where she did these things, who are also largely the people who are on FFA, are furious about that and of course they don’t want to see her allowed to walk away as though it never happened.
What real, physical danger is she in, that these people have caused? The person who outed her publicly, where governments might find the information was, again, Nick Matamas, one of her supporters. That’s nothing for anyone else to feel guilty about.
@alia: Apart from and aside from the critical things she’s said in the past about the HK and Thai governments that may or may not now get her into trouble, she’s reported that she has a physical stalker that she has been in hiding from for over a year who now has access to her whereabouts. Nick Mamatas didn’t out her, he was given her permission to make a statement. She was first outed without her consent by a series including Tricia Sullivan (who I think is the only one who claimed it publicly).
I’m not sure what you mean about people not using ethnicity to connect Bees and RH? I have read even just today people saying that they were always sure Bees and RH were one and the same because they were both Thai women, which is definitionally using ethnicity to connect them. Yeah, it’s reaching, but for someone trying to maintain ironclad separation between personal and professional identities I can see where she was coming from.
I don’t disagree that winterfox was totally an abrasive asshole and RH’s reviews were often needlessly incendiary. I do disagree that someone should be punished forever and ever amen and left with no future afterward, especially when she has used the last few years to set the bulk of her winterfoxery behind her with apologies for setting 50books on fire etc etc.
@astefs: Tricia Sullivan et al never posted WF’s identity publicly. By all accounts, they discussed it with select people privately and in confidence. The connection was not made public where governments and stalkers could find it until Matamas made his statement. If his comment was a statement, then there was no public outing at all.
Please link me to both the people making racist assumptions and to WF’s apologies. No one I’ve spoken to has seen those and I know the apologies, in particular, would be welcome.
ROTYH’s personal attacks are a straw man. The fact is she ran the most racist blog in the history of SFF and somehow that’s a non-issue. In other words, what gets Vox Day booted from the SFWA gets this woman sympathy and it’s all chalked up to “performance rage.” In one post alone she uses “Whitey McWhite,” “Caucasoid,” “Aryan” and “Ms Honky.”
@James May: ” In one post alone she uses “Whitey McWhite,” “Caucasoid,” “Aryan” and “Ms Honky.” ”
Oh how *horrible*. You poor, poor white man.
Nice to see you again, Mr May (or would you prefer your Guardian nom de guerre of ‘Fail Burton’). Are you still updating this master work of yours?
http://www.jamesmaystock.com/essays/Pages/DeathofSF.html
By the way, you really ought to make clear that you aren’t the misogynist clown from Top Gear. You can see how people might be confused.
@James May: As far as I’m aware (in my experience of 30+ years as a white person), “Whitey” and “Honky” are not offensive racial slurs. Because white Americans are not oppressed for being white.
I do find it interesting (especially in light of the fact that she’s a WoC herself) that Winterfox/RequiresHate has always reserved the bulk of her vitriol for female writers, including black and Asian female writers. I followed the 50books_poc community that she nearly killed back in 2011, where she not only directly insulted authors in her reviews (she’s of course deleted the reviews and all of her comments since then, but IIRC they included calling author Cindy Pon “a stupid fuck”) but also attacked any community member who posted a positive review of a book she disliked. The authors she attacked were almost always women (and, given the purpose of the comm, always PoC).
@astefs:
It absolutely is true. I watched her for years target fans of books and video games who liked things she didn’t with threats and bullying, the intensity of violence of both increasing over the years. LJ post about her here:
http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/5121496.html
That line about not discovering fantasy until she was 30? Complete bullshit. She wrote Forgotten Realms fanfic, and used to go on rants about what a shitty writer JK Rowling was.
Where were the moderators when all this community destroying, silencing and bullying were occurring? Were there any mods? Good grief.
@Elspeth
Not in America, in general (I would argue that whites are sometimes the subject of racial hate in Hawaii), but WF/RH isn’t from america, is she?
I lived for a year in Japan, and several months in Korea, and believe me, racism against whites (and basically anyone not from each respective country) is VERY prevalent. So I would not doubt that she meant to be racist – it is, after all, pretty accepted in a lot of Asian countries to be racist against anyone not your type of Asian. And don’t even get me started on the friends I had that were half Japanese and THeiR treatment in Japan. One of them was so scared by her experiences in a Japanese elementary school, she refused to talk about her Japanese heritage for over a decade. Or the Korean kid in one of my middle schools in Japan, and the treatment she got from teachers and students… Also, when I was there, I was fluent in Japanese…but as a white person (when in public, not at work) no one EXPECTED me to be fluent. So believe me, the conversions spoken loudly around me were *very* enlightening.
My point is, she doesn’t get a free pass just because whites aren’t oppressed in America. Racism is racism. I mean, using that as a defense for her is like saying it’s ok to TRY and start an oppression movement! Frankly, I hate all racism not matter if it’s Japanese hating Filipinos, Koreans hating Japanese, whites hating blacks, or blacks hating whites (no matter how not pc that is, it does happen. Whether or not people admit it), or any combination of the above. The only way to change things is to not excuse ANY hate.
Yeah, there are plenty of folk in fandom who know of (have been targets of) Winterfox. She was part of our little community back when she was young and before she honed her double-edged trolling skills on the grindstone of social justice/racism attacks. Fortunately, we had an actively modded community. At the time, she stirred the midden just as @alia describes: “She’s also a big fan of making statements with obvious, insulting implications and then insisting that she bears no culpability because she never actually said the thing people are taking offense to.” And she got away with it, because outside the insulting “non-insults” she had good points to make. She knew what she was doing ten years ago. You better believe she knows what she’s doing now, and I hate to say it, but I don’t believe for a minute that social justice or racial equality is her first priority–it’s just the most reactionary weapon she has. I’m not sorry to hear people speaking out over her abuses and destructive behavior, and I’m not sorry she’s experiencing consequences for it now.
What I am sorry about is that she hasn’t tempered/mellowed out over the years. It’s clear that many people believe she’s a very talented writer. If she truly cared about her writing and social justice, she could have done so much more for both causes besides leave trails of shit behind her wherever she goes. Do I think she should be blackballed? That’s hard to say. “But they’re so talented,” is the same case made for Roman Polanski (not that this is on equal footing with that, but abuse is abuse on some level). Do I think that her public online actions should affect her career? Yes, to an extent (even the ones she’s tried to hastily scrub away). Online is no less a public forum/display for our behavior than standing in the middle of your street. If she’s truly sorry, she can apologize for her behavior and try to make amends and then *stop doing it again.* If not…she gets to own it, like everybody else.
Ann Sommerville doesn’t understand how law and fair play works. Defamation is always wrong, there are no “levels” that let people off the hook. Radical feminist intersectionalists like Sommerville have been playing that con a long time and I’m not buying it. There should be only one standard for hate speech and Vox Day, N.K. Jemisin, Sommerville and ROTYH are all cousins under the skin in principle. The fact their targets are different means nothing.
“Ann Sommerville doesn’t understand how law and fair play works.”
Still can’t spell, Mr May? It’s not like it’s not on the screen right in front of you.
Oh I know how defamation works (thought you are extraordinarily tactless and thoughtless in making that comment *here*).
I also know what is and isn’t defamation – calling a white person ‘white’ isn’t defamation.
However, you calling Vox Day and his target, N K Jemisin, “cousins under the skin” is defamatory. Actually, it’s just moronic (although perhaps you are being amusing – for the first time I’m aware of – because VD apparently discovered he has ‘half-savage’ DNA and is now calling himself a person of colour.)
RequiresHate is a particularly vile individual. She’s duplicitous, abusive, and targets rape victims and other women of colour with truly nasty attacks.
Which means she and you are the real “cousins under the skin” since you also consistent target people of colour who don’t suck up to you and your friend, Vox Day. I despise all three of you.
I apologise to the DA for engaging this creature. Be warned that doing so will certainly end up with my name – and anyone else’s he dislikes – being slapped into one of his revolting screeds at his site, and labelled as ‘racist’. Because white people who don’t like racists, are the real racists.
“… we consider buffaloes especially stupid as animals go. The perfect analogy for white men” – from ROTYH’s review site.
@James May
So? I called Swedish people “Whitey McWhitington” when I said that Vox Day was so reactionary, he’s racist against Swedish people.
@James May:
James May needs to learn how shutting up works.
Vox Day is not my friend and I do not target people of color unless you consider Jim Hines, John Scalzi, Foz Meadows, Rachel Acks, Alex MacFarlane, James Worrad, Charles Stross, Jonathan McCalmont, Damien Walters, Kate Elliott, Natalie Luhrs, Veronica Schanoes, Steven Gould, M.J. Locke, Fran Wilde, Farah Mendelsohn, Sean McGuire, Liz Bourke, Mary Robinette Kowal, and a dozen other people in my essay people of color.
I take people to task for what they say, not their skin. And you clearly don’t understand what ethnic defamation is since there is nothing racist about saying Day and Jemisin do the same thing in principle. You are addicted to identity and are dazzled by sex and skin and don’t understand principle or how a baseball umpire works or the U.S. Constitution. You have double standards for people based on their race and sex and have no race and sex neutral definition for racial bigotry, harassment, sexism or gender-phobias.
“Vox Day is not my friend”
You’re right. He’s your hero. I mean, even VD has standards.
“dazzled by sex and skin”
Someone work this into their next erotic romance, please?
“don’t understand principle or how a baseball umpire works or the U.S. Constitution”
Oooh, an Australian doesn’t know how a baseball umpire or the US Constitition works? Coloured me horrified.
You need to shut up now, Mr May. You’re making the internet look stupid.
Of course I look stupid to you. I believe everyone has the right to live as expansive a life as possible – everyone. I believe everyone should be held to the same standards. I don’t profile people according to their skin, sex and gender expression. I don’t believe in that. I don’t even see people like that in the first place since such divisions are mostly false and irrelevant.
The SFF community’s so-called anti-racists, anti-sexists and anti-homophobes have done more to mainstream hate speech into SFF than has ever been done. I thank heaven I’m not your hero.
Okay, enough already. The issues are important and deserve debate, but the personalization isn’t and doesn’t; it merely detracts from and undermines any reasonable, related argument, let alone the assertion that ‘everyone has the right to live as expansive a life as possible.’
I have no idea what that means. You mean you don’t believe all people have a right to the opportunity to be happy and have options in their lives?
@astefs:
Because she’s a woman and WOC at that, she’s an easy target for people whose feelings she hurt by not liking their books to lash back at.
This is patently ridiculous. Attempting to frame this as an issue of gender only minimizes Winterfox’s disgusting behavior and gives her a pass for engaging in hate speech and harassment online.
I was on the receiving end of her abuse when I frequented the writers_guild LJ community in 2008. Her comments went WELL beyond “not liking” people’s stories. She was outright rude, frequently launched into unrelated personal attacks, and was downright THREATENING on many occasions to other LJ users. Having been on LJ for 10 years now, Winterfox/Benjanun Sriduangkaew stands out among the most noxious individuals I’ve ever encountered. She was more than a troll, she was a cancer.
Getting along in society is not rocket science. When you go to the post office you wait in line. There is no women of color this or privilege that and postcolonialism there.
The reason the SFF community is so broken is because there are 18,000 different views on how to wait in line in an incomprehensible racial and gender hierarchy no one can figure out. There are no shared principles. Everyone wants to be at the front of the line and put others at the back. As long as we have this Tower of Babel in SFF we will remain broken. Introduce this into baseball and you’d destroy the game in one inning. You cannot call balls and strikes based on the race and sex of batter and pitcher. Introduce this into a society and it will break. Introduce it into law and there will be chaos.
We have no shared language we speak and so it’s no surprise we can’t communicate. If a community can come to agreement on what constitutes harassment at conventions they can do the same for hate speech. The problem is there are too many people who benefit from double standards of hate speech.
ROTYH isn’t really any different from the core institutions in SFF. She was just louder and more vulgar in her ethnic and gender harassment. The idea some people are incapable of being harassed because of what the East India Company did in 1800 is childish. Somehow people never quite see the Taj Mahal for what it is or wonder why there’s a lake outside Hyderabad named Hussein or know about Bernal Diaz’s description of Montezuma’s arsenal. There are no guilty or innocent according to sex and race; there are only people.
“Jim Hines, John Scalzi, Foz Meadows, Rachel Acks, Alex MacFarlane, James Worrad, Charles Stross, Jonathan McCalmont, Damien Walters, Kate Elliott, Natalie Luhrs, Veronica Schanoes, Steven Gould, M.J. Locke, Fran Wilde, Farah Mendelsohn, Sean[an] McGuire, Liz Bourke, Mary Robinette Kowal”
Mr May has done us a favour, by the way. This is a fairly good list of decent folk in SFF and ones usually on the side of truth and justice, if anyone’s looking for people to follow on twitter.
As for his other comments, I’m Ginger the dog. I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t know a “Radical feminist intersectionalist” if one sat on his face.