[LMB] OT: request

[B. Ross Ashley]

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 11:28:03 -0400 (EDT), James Nicoll 
<jdnicoll at panix.com> wrote:

 > On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Helen Fenton wrote:

 > > That certainly cleared up my confusion. All I can say after 
watching the
 > > video clip you included is he must have been drunk  or  he has too 
many
 > > kangaroos loose in his top paddock due to his age (or both)

  	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.

I am a denizen of Bonobo Hill myself, James, aka Sanders' newsgroup on 
sff.net; I don't read Will that way at all, in general or in this 
instance. There are a number of woman writers on Bonobo Hill who would 
hardly hang out there if Will were that way. A pointer to a specific 
post (not a quotation, Will won't like that) would be appreciated. 
Unless this is in the private SFWA discussions?
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