{"id":5509,"date":"2014-02-20T20:40:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T04:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=5509"},"modified":"2014-02-20T20:40:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T04:40:39","slug":"if-one-of-the-bottles-should-happen-to-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/20\/if-one-of-the-bottles-should-happen-to-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"if one of the bottles should happen to fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

The skiffy net is all abuzz with Sean Fodera’s apology to Mary Robinette Kowal<\/a>. He also seems to have caught up enough to know that you cannot sue the Internet<\/a>, tho’ he still seems to think he as a good libel case against… people… who quote him… accurately. Well, baby steps.<\/p>\n

Ms. Kowal has, in turn, issued her acceptance of his apology:<\/p>\n

<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He’s also posted about women in SF<\/a>, in a way that seems to me to be muchly ignoring the point of this entire petition adventure. Screencaps of both are at Radish Reviews<\/a>, because SFF.net keeps buckling under the traffic rush.<\/p>\n

Me? I’m less than convinced, not really by the apology itself – which seems fine – but by the context of the “I don’t hate women, I have a daughter! And women co-workers!” second post. Commenters at James Nicoll’s Livejournal blog are thinking similarly<\/a>. But I’m in the enviable position of having superpowers, not the least of which is my innate and tremendous ability not to have to give a fuck<\/em>. If Mary is happy, well, what else is needed?<\/p>\n

Oh, I know. Some sort of settlement of this whole petition flap. Hopefully, Mr. Fodera is sincere, and – tokenism of his women-in-SF post aside – let’s also say well-intentioned. That leaves a whole lot of petition authors and signers who are not so far along<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This isn’t about one<\/em> person. This is about a systemic problem.<\/p>\n

Some people have been calling this apology a resolution to the entire affair<\/a>; I find that overly optimistic, myself. But we’ll see.<\/p>\n

\n

Previous posts on this topic are collected here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The skiffy net is all abuzz with Sean Fodera’s apology to Mary Robinette Kowal. He also seems to have caught up enough to know that you cannot sue the Internet, tho’ he still seems to think he as a good libel case against… people… who quote him… accurately. Well, baby steps. Ms. Kowal has, in [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}