Saw some toolbag “horror author” this morning on my FB feed post this thing about how some WOMEN IN HORROR group is advertising itself using an image of a vampire woman (replete with fangs) licking blood from her lips.<\/p>\n
And said toolbag whipped up an image that put this banner image next to the anatomical image of a woman’s vagina and from there proceeded to explain how it was silly for this feminist group to advertise their efforts using what was effectively a woman’s ladyparts. He also explained that women paint their lips red in order to simulate flushed labia. Translation: he sees every woman’s mouth as a place for him to, erm, stick it.<\/p>\n
In the comments, which were a delightful circus act of dipshittery, he went on to explain that OH IT’S OKAY because he took a writing class taught by a lesbian once (why is it that lesbians are the token “black friends” of misogynists everywhere?) and he was the only man in that class and it was cool to have to defend the male gender from all their misinformation.<\/p>\n
I don’t have much to say here except, goddamn. What the fuck is wrong with people?<\/p>\n
I want to excise all this toxic stuff out of genre. Because most genre authors are awesome.<\/p>\n
And this was decidedly not awesome.<\/p>\n
And we wonder why women don’t feel welcome at the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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