Candy Kicks Ass
Don't mess with Smart Bitch Candy unless your logic and reasoning is rock solid. Because if you make narrow-minded, discrimnatory, moronic statements and follow them up with more moronic statements in defence of the original asshattery, she will take you apart. And she doesn't pull punches.
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link isn't working for you? It works for me. There's only one, "she will take you apart"
working now. I may have been operating with a caffeine deficit earlier.
No sir. I sure wouldn't want to run afoul of Candy or any of these other incredibly smart people who have responded to Jan Butler's statements. I found JB's refusal to approve any of the comments people were leaving on her follow-up blog entry, "Freedom of speech and ideas...for whom?" most interesting. That blog entry STILL has 0 comments. Unbelievable.
I love how she hides behind the freedom of speech like some self-important martyr. The first amendment doesn’t promote or encourage hate mongering does it? I love how she bucks at the names she has been called while sprouting immorality and terms that might as well spell out YOU ARE SICK AND WE HATE YOU. But just because she is legally allowed to say these things does not mean she is pushing any less shit up hill. The reason so many people are on one side of the argument compared to her up-start little group on her side is the fact that over the last fifty years – even less actually – the world has been proven round. It is okay and normal to be homosexual, there is no conspiracy to make others homosexual, it is a part of our biology and a part of our race as human beings. The world is round, it is not flat, deal with the fact that we are not all straight, some of us are gay and GASP! most are normal, morally-bound human beings who live good, productive and useful lives. The thing is that this sort of mentality is engrained and there is no point arguing with people like this, all they feel is that they are the poor victims because their tirades of mean-spirited, out-dated thinking has been countered. I feel bad for her, it would be hard being one of the last people standing in the middle of the street yelling “the world is flat damn it” while other people are taking pictures from the moon proving her wrong.
There are some countries in the world where people who write about same sex love get imprisoned and tortured. It's truly depressing to see a writer of whatever genre come out with these views let alone asserting a writing organisation such as RWA should adopt them. I though we were in the business of writing our truths.