“Steven Gould, the President, were able to provide me with any evidence for the existence of the double-secret “SFWA Confidentiality Rules” to which they had both appealed.”
– Theodore Beale
See “Response: part I” on Beale’s Blog site. 4% of the SFW membership is behind this effort; a very easily identified group to expose.
Yet, recent tweets by SFWA President, Steven Gould, appear to mock exactly what he trying to enforce:
Like this “retweet” (Hmm . . . humor in censorship?)
Or this stunning reflection on “elected” officials . . . how’s that for calling the kettle black?
Remember, it was SFWA President, Steven Gould and How He Treated a SFWA Member Before He Was in Office that is significant here. This Twitter post just speaks for itself. Do you think that SFWA President, Steven Gould had an “agenda” against author and SFWA Presidential candidate Theodore Beale before he took office? He posted this on Twitter 17 days before his term as SFWA President began. Sound like a Scalzi clone? Predisposed? Run members of of SFWA . . .quit now! Gould took office on July 1, 2013.
SFWA President, Steven Gould . . . How He Treated a SFWA Member Before He Was in Office
This Twitter post just speaks for itself. Do you think that SFWA President, Steven Gould had an “agenda” against author and SFWA Presidential candidate Theodore Beale before he took office? He posted this on Twitter 17 days before his term as SFWA President began. Sound like a Scalzi clone? Predisposed? Run members of of SFWA . . . quit now!
“”Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.”
– Benjamin Franklin
If you are one of the “36 people” that have quit the SWFA or if you’ve decided not to renew your membership . . . please feel free to contact us herewith your story or with any information that you would like to share. The contents of your responses will remain anonymous, and your confidentiality will be protected under the highest standards of research ethics.
The Write Agenda is pleased to see this erosion beginning within the SFWA. It’s a sign that members of the SFWA are beginning to wake up and realize that the SFWA’s leadership (including Writer Beware, Victoria Strauss, John Scalzi and Ann “A.C.” Crispin and now status quo President, Steven Gould) have engaged in promoting “dissension and dissatisfaction throughout the organization with their inept activist leadership.”
“[I]f 36 people have really quit [the SWFA] of late, then obviously the responsibility lies with those who have actively sown dissension and dissatisfaction throughout the organization with their inept activist leadership rather than the so-called “rabid weasels” who have been there for years, if not decades.”
[Theodore Beale’s blog posting today. Once again, Beale has demonstrated that he is a real force to be reckoned with and why Scalzi, Strauss, Hines, Nielsen-Hayden & others fear him. Well done “Theo” . . . Well done. Interesting that the statistics have increased during the 2013 SFWA Election – The Write Agenda]
Thanks very much to everyone who visited here in April, especially those who took the time to get involved in the various discussions in the comments. I remember scoffing when ten years ago a reader predicted that this blog would one day have a million pageviews in a year, so it seems incredible to me that VP and AG now see that level of traffic in a single month.
With a few notable exceptions, most blogs hide their traffic reports these days, but I think this is a tactical blunder. The primary problem with doing so is that it allows the Left to dishonestly attempt to marginalize right-wing blogs in the eyes of others. Recall that I have been portrayed for ten years as an extremist whack-job whose writing no one read even as the readership steadily grown, and I was regularly reminded that PZ Myers, John Scalzi, and a number of other left-wing bloggers all had much bigger blog readerships than I did… until it was revealed late last year that the traffic here alone, (never mind that of the WND columns that those bloggers were reading and attacking), had passed up some of those blogs almost two years ago! Never forget, the Left is heavily dependent upon lies, and one of their biggest lies, perhaps the one to which they resort the most readily, concerns their pretense that their opinions enjoy much more popularity than they actually do. Therefore, the more metrics that are visible to everyone, the less they can get away with it.
That is why I make my Sitemeter and Google Analytics statistics public. (VP uses the old template, which is why there is no monthly traffic widget in the sidebar as is the case with AG.) That’s why I’ve begun a quarterly Top 10 Game blogs report that I expect to expand to a Top 25 report in the second quarter. That’s why I encourage everyone who is in any way sympathetic to the neoreactionary traditional Relightenment to be open and public with their statistics. The truth is on our side. Victory through data!
Let’s face it, it is very difficult for the rabbits of Whatever to continue to claim that the Chief Gamma Rabbit of their warren is a vastly influential individual, and their sick transcis-quax-gendered view of human intersexual relations is the mainstream perspective, when everyone now realizes that Whatever has only two-thirds the traffic of my blogs and one-quarter that of the Great Prophet of the Crimson Arts. Open metrics make it clear that it is the influential Cathedralites such as Jim Hines (Alexa Rank 729,110) and Making Light (375,254), who are actually the marginal ones. Despite their artificially elevated positions in the field of SF/F, they cannot maintain sizable blog readerships, not even with the benefit of occasional puffing by their ideological allies in the mainstream media. They may be big fish, but they are big fish in a much smaller pond than the ocean they attempt to claim.
It’s not that their opinions aren’t relevant or that no one shares them, it is merely that their perspective is nowhere nearly as dominant as they are desperate to have you believe. They can run from debate and they can refuse to permit substantive criticism or even a semblance of genuine discourse on their sites, but the one thing they cannot avoid is the harsh light of statistical reality exposing their pretenses.
It is ludicrous to imagine that it is popular writers such as Sarah Hoyt and Larry Correia who are the societal outsiders when their influence is an order of magnitude or more larger than most of the supposed “big names” in modern SF/F. Sure, the Cathredralites sell more books, for the time being, because their capture of the genre’s gatekeepers means they have access to its media and distribution channels. But what we are seeing now is the early stages of a Fox News-style transformation in the SF/F industry, as new media outlets and new transmission channels is in the process of seriously upending the tilted playing field. The cultural battle in SF/F isn’t over, as the self-appointed winners would have you believe, the heavy cavalry is just beginning to enter the field and the unarmored footmen without shields are quaking.
However, the fact that the Left is wrong about equality, wrong about economics, wrong about the past, and wrong about the future does not mean there is nothing that we of the Right cannot learn from them. The one thing the Left does very, very well is the force-multiplication of its various assets, no matter how small and insignificant they truly are, and that is something that the neoreactionary Right will have to learn in order to mitigate the damage our progressive counterparts have inflicted upon us and upon themselves. That’s why I’ve created the Standout Authors and Friends of Narnia, and I encourage other writers and bloggers of the Right to devote at least some effort to building up others of the Right even as they continue to pursue their own diverse and independent ambitions.
Consider that Prospect Magazine declared the top World Thinkers of 2013 on the basis of 10,000 votes. 10,000 votes! That’s nothing, and yet the Left will gravely – and absurdly – pretend, on that basis, that Richard Dawkins is widely considered to be the greatest intellectual of our time.
We can do better. We should do better. We will do better.
More Embarrassment for Outgoing SFWA President John Scalzi
While SFWA President doesn’t need to be removed from office (He’s not seeking re-election. . . he’ll be gone very soon) . . . the author of this blog posting does raise some very interesting issues . . . enjoy James May’s post:
He actually looks a little slimmer in this photo. Maybe thats why it was posted? I suppose you have to just go with the flow and embrace your inner rabbit. Possibly some sort of Zen thing….
Vox,
can you modify the post a little? It doesn’t actually mention his name in the text, and the rabbits may not count it toward the total needed for their donations.
I mean, don’t you care about the gay black female orphan girls getting their maximum donations from the rabbits?
I don’t think he would hurt either himself or others, at least not physically. That is the entire point.
Every so often a movie comes out that is so bad I want to root for the bad guys because the protagonist is just so stupid, annoying, and/or reckless that you want him to lose life, limb, or property as the storyline is screaming to heaving that such would be a just outcome.
I never thought life would imitate art in this case.
But I do remember the comments of those who know nothing of the controversy when they first see the image. “Creepy” was one of the responses.
Marvel nor DC comics has ever had a mutant whose superpower was to be a universal victim.
This is in your face “I want you to do something bad to me so I can whine and moan and complain”.
Masochism without the Eros, and at the level of the intellect.
We haven’t seen the back of the shirts, but it would not be inconsistent if there were letters asking “Kick Me!”.
Can you be a victim if you induce someone to engage? (I don’t mean the feminist postaldeconstructionism or whatever they call their insane rantings and ravings, I mean those who lack both insanity and imbecility).
The real problem is that agree and amplify only works if you have the alpha mindset already embedded in your bones. And the alpha mindset would ensure that no one would ever get the neckhole of a shirt like that over your head. Much less voluntarily wearing it for an interview.
I must admit that this is much more amusing to me than is properly christian. I suppose I should pity the poor deluded little gamma, but I seem to be lacking the proper amount of christian charity.
And his shirt is wildly oversized in the shoulders, which on his frame is an egregious inadvertent cultural gamma signifier even without the shirt’s actual content.
I must admit that this is much more amusing to me than is properly christian. I suppose I should pity the poor deluded little gamma, but I seem to be lacking the proper amount of christian charity.
This is like watching someone who is falling down drunk – it is very comical, yet is self-induced. Like alcoholism, he has to hit rock bottom for there to be any hope, but his codependent warren keeps affirming him and his esteem. Pity is not proper for those who voluntarily become whatever you find pitiable.
Realize that for him to be saved, something far more comic and painful will have to occur than has so far, but things appear to be progressing nicely.
You can’t he has colon cancer and his butt has been sowed up. You could try banging his stoma. Jeeze you are sick, I can match your two pair with a full house.
CynicAle used “quixotic” more perspicaciously than he probably realized. Our generation needs a Cervantes to lampoon the genre of white knight fairy tales.
That’s not wallpaper, that’s hanging cloth. And he’s wearing a mic. So the entire layout is: he’s sitting in front of an audience, in front of a goofy background, wearing that shirt, giving a talk or responding to questions. Maybe the L stands for lesbian. It’s certainly not a Rotary club.
Can you even begin to imagine the horror that his last victim felt, being intimately violated while staring at that half-naked groping cartoon rabbit the entire time?
Or, maybe, just maybe, she lucked out, and instead he left the shirt on.
“Hi!” writes Scalzi, “I’m a rapist. I’m one of those men who likes to force myself on women without their consent or desire and then batter them sexually.”
It is an interesting construct of the rape process. Scalzi does it in two phases:
1) forcing himself on women (without consent, as opposed to all those non-rapists who force themselves on women with consent)
2) battering them sexually
(one presumes step 3 is …profit!)
Nevertheless, is he incapable somehow of battering with the force he uses in step 1? It seems his rapes are exceedingly delicate affairs of violence, in that sexual battery follows sexual force, and is not part and parcel of it.
Perhaps he means “batter” in another sense.
For a rapist, he sure uses a lot of indirect language.
In the future, he should let the rabbit explain his rapes.
Ah, the ol’ Vox/Scazli Feud. We have to define what “winning” means. If it means “appearing petty and obsessive” a point goes to Vox. If it means “giving no indication that one is still aware his nemesis even exists” then a point to Scalzi.
Marvel nor DC comics has ever had a mutant whose superpower was to be a universal victim. – tz
I do remember the story in the “Watchmen” movie about the would-be villain demanding the heroes to punish him. Apparently, Rohrschach complies by tossing him down an elevator shaft.
Let me get this straight. I look up this guy and it turns out he’s among the top 100 authors on Amazon. His latest Sci fi book is #5000 overall on amazon. A book that isn’t even in circulation yet ranks at 3000 on Amazon. Vox Day isn’t ranked among Amazon’s best selling authors and his latest book comes in ranked just below 900,000.
So, he’s ranks and ladders and levels above Vox Day in their chosen profession and genre in terms of success and popularity and he’s being mocked?
A. Man: Couldn’t help but notice that the saddled dinosaur picture you were bitching about the other day was uploaded by one John Scalzi. Just a coincidence, I’m sure.
“”Giving no indication”? Which, of course, is why in interviews he wears a t shirt which exists solely because of the dustup between him and VD.”
It looks to me like he’s having his own fun with Vox Day and the one dong the real mocking. It is after all a shot of him being interviewed by the LA Times, whereas Vox Day is chirping on about the man by invitation of … well, his own blog.
“Couldn’t help but notice that the saddled dinosaur picture you were bitching about the other day was uploaded by one John Scalzi. Just a coincidence, I’m sure.”
Repeated without comment: A. Man It looks to me like he’s having his own fun with Vox Day and the one dong the real mocking.
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Also:
If it means “giving no indication that one is still aware his nemesis even exists” then a point to Scalzi.
Way to go, Russian judge. I think wearing message apparel that the nemesis psychically designed in honor of Scalzi’s crimes against women is “no indication” then I agree with you.
“As a result of my campaign for SFWA president, I have spent the last two months in the bowels of the SFWA forums. What I have seen is that the writers who make up the SF/F community are, to an almost unbelievable extent, delusional. They genuinely believe they are faster when they have been winning races because a vast quantity of other runners have been barred from even lining up in the blocks to run against them. They genuinely believe that they are special beings with a superior morality, and at the same time, assert that their ideological views are shared by all the decent members of civil society. And they are very nasty pieces of work, bitter from their long experience of social exclusion and their lowly positions on the socio-sexual totem pole. They are full of hatred themselves, which is why they see hate in even the most genuine and harmless differences of opinion.
Most of all, they have no ability to conceive of the mere possibility of separating the personal from the political. They attempt to destroy those who disagree with them or cause them to suffer embarrassment; recall that McRapey’s charity campaign wasn’t an attempt to stop me from trolling his blog or to advance any racist, sexist, or homophobic causes, it was to try to stop me from simply mentioning him because I dared to directly quote him and taunt him for his eminently tauntable words. I did nothing more than do to him what he prides himself on doing to others; you all know what resulted from that.
Nearly two decades ago, a member of the SFWA told me that the battles within science fiction were so bitter because the stakes were so small. But I think he was wrong. It’s more than that. The battles are so bitter because SF/F is largely comprised of gamma males and unattractive women who are very bitter people. They are openly bitter about their lots in life. They are deeply angry with the world as they have experienced it. The books they write, for the most part, are their wish fulfillment fantasies, places where they finally have the chance to say what they didn’t have the wit to say when it mattered and be the people they couldn’t manage to become in real life. This is why, despite being technically more proficient in some ways, their work is so observably inferior to the science fiction and fantasy of earlier ages that concerned itself with ideas of more grandeur and societal import than the retro-adolescent daydreams of socio-sexually unsuccessful former junior high school students.
I commend Sarah for her graciousness in attempting to warn those who have repeatedly done their best to professionally shun her and undermine her career. But I can tell her that it will not work; I attempted to do something similar in my current campaign for SFWA President. But my warnings about the coming collapse of the traditional professional publishing business of SF/F – which you will note preceded the failure of Night Shade Books – was met with little more than the usual sneers and rabbits shrieking ‘not-rabbit, not-rabbit’!”
“For those who are arriving late to all this, the Gamma Rabbit character is a mockery of the label that rightwing blogger Vox Day assigned to Scalzi a few weeks ago. On the surface the illustration is merely a satirical rebuttal; but things are never so straightforward where John Scalzi is concerned.John’s deeper purposes become clear when one reads the blog post that accompanies the illustration.For Gamma Rabbit is a Trojan Bunny of sorts, a distracting vehicle that masks even more self-aggrandizement and clever evasion on the sci-fi author’s part:
Yes, Gamma Rabbit, who likes people as they are, fears no one no matter how they live their lives, and who is comfortable with himself and his own personal values of kindness, tolerance and diversity. Sure, there are some who look down on him and his ways, but you know what? Gamma Rabbit knows that those people are kooky, silly, wacky racist sexist homophobic dipshits…”
Outgoing SFWA President, John Scalzi, continues to demonstrate his childish behavior and disdain for 2013 SFWA Presidential Candidate, Theodore Beale. Start here to see what we are referring to. Yes, he really did register “GammaRabbit.com.” See here and/or below:
Suffice to say, another embarrassment for the SFWA . . . Grow up Scalzi. Please vote for Theodore Beale for SFWA President!
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