[LMB] OT: request

[PAT MATHEWS]

>From: James Nicoll <jdnicoll at panix.com>

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>On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Helen Fenton wrote:
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>	He's always taken pride in acting like a jerk (See, for example, "Driving 
>in the Spikes" in the ESSENTIAL ELLISON, then flip forward to "Xenogenesis" 
>and marvel at his inability to generalize) and he doesn't have much 
>experience with people saying no to him. It's not like this is an unusual 
>event, except for it being on stage, and it's not like there isn't a 
>subsection of male fandom who think that really, women are there for 
>eyecandy and services (William Sanders, for example, appears to think the 
>issue is that Ellison and Willis are old and not pretty).
>
>It's not age and it's not demetia. It's an overdeveloped sense of 
>entitlement.
>--

Thank you for saying that. I posted a very angry rant to my livejournal, 
which has had no responses, and have posted a more temperate one to 
Ozarque's journal, where there was a woman who pointed out that Harlan's 
head is in the past and we don't want to freeze discourse with Political 
Correctness, do we? I asked  how she;s react if he'd shoved Steve Barnes out 
of the way and refused to shake hands. Barnes is a human being. Willis is, 
apparently, a prey animal in a certain sort of mind.

What's amazing is that the women in fandom are the least likely to be 
comfortable with the role of eyecandy and service providers - we and the men 
are more like each other than we are like the stereotypes of Mister Macho 
and Miss Cutesy-Poo!