{"id":5622,"date":"2014-03-01T09:48:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T17:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=5622"},"modified":"2014-03-01T09:48:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T17:48:05","slug":"oh-dear-not-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/01\/oh-dear-not-again\/","title":{"rendered":"oh dear not again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Really, Loncon? Really? This guy is your Hugo presenter<\/a>? I mean, sure, you’re an English<\/em> Worldcon, and SFWA is all United States and such, but really, I thought you might’ve noticed some of that kerfluffle – after all, you’ve already lost one commmittee member over the choice<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thinking on it, maybe a guy who has built a comedy career out of punching down<\/a>, who launches mock secual assault on guests to his show as jokes, who calls up 78-year-old actors and leaves a series of voice mails about fucking his granddaughter – on the air – might not’ve been a good idea.<\/p>\n

Honestly, this is a man whose comedy awards presentation was so terrible that viewers called for the entire British Comedy Awards to be scrapped outright<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is your guy.<\/em><\/a> The founding member of the Rude Boy racism-and-sexism-is-intrinsically-hilarious revival in British comedy. This guy.<\/em> The one who, to be fair, had more than just that going on, but… honestly, really? This was your good idea? In this<\/em> context, in particular?<\/p>\n

Well, embarrassment humour is a mainstay of British comedy, and you’ve certainly made me feel a bit embarrassed about my Friend of the Bid support. So… well done there? But probably not in the way you think.<\/p>\n

 
\neta:<\/b> Wow, that was quick; he seems to have dropped out. I’d suggest it was a stunt except there’s no value in it. Perhaps he was sincere and didn’t realise what a couple of decades of this sort of thing might make people outside his core demographic think about his desirability as a presenter. Who can say? Poorly handed, still, really. I’m more astonished than angry; Radish Reviews is more angry than astonished<\/a>. Also, David Perry analyses the way it went down<\/a>, with a site note on Bleeding Cool’s Rich Johnston and his condemnation of people unhappy about the choice as “haters” who can’t take a joke<\/a>, with bonus notes on “fainting couch” and “hysterical [women]” comments. Worth reading.<\/p>\n

eta2:<\/b> People have been fixating on Seanan McGuire’s reaction, accusing her of hounding him into quitting. But that’s entirely untrue, and the timestamps prove it<\/a> – he’d offered to resign before she’d’ve even awakened that morning, much less posted, and walked away an hour later. Charlie Stross’s equally negative reaction – to 20,000 people – came hours before, and that’s what got it started.<\/p>\n

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ps: I know I said I wasn’t blogging today – hi from Cascadia Rail 510 north to Vancouver, by the by – and doing this on mobile is difficult! But, well, motivation<\/em>, I have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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