{"id":6671,"date":"2014-12-31T09:03:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T17:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=6671"},"modified":"2014-12-31T09:03:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T17:03:04","slug":"oh-good-the-horrible-people-have-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/31\/oh-good-the-horrible-people-have-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"oh good, the horrible people have arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donotlink.com\/d1fw\">A science-fiction writer of some notice has taken rather severe exception to the Legend of Korra finale<\/a>. It&#8217;s the sort of vicious vitroil that I would expect out of Concerned Women for America &#8211; it&#8217;s too crude for the relatively-erudite such as Focus on the Family, and a bit too literate for the cretins at the American Family Association. You don&#8217;t have to read it; it&#8217;s the usual eliminationist rant.<\/p>\n<p>I found out about it via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimchines.com\/2014\/12\/john-wright-legend-of-korra\">Jim Hines&#8217;s post to his blog<\/a>, and mostly, I spent time talking about how Korra affected a lot of us. But then Mr. Writer&#8217;s minions started showing up with their all-queers-are-child-molesters savagery, and, well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimchines.com\/2014\/12\/john-wright-legend-of-korra\/comment-page-1\/#comment-277933\">I may have started to have some fun with them last night<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A week ago, I made <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/a-quiet-night-at-the-lair\/comment-page-1\/#comment-181610\">a now rather popular commentary on poison<\/a>. These are people who would do and are doing everything they can to <em>keep that poison inside of us<\/em> &#8211; any method, rhetorical or otherwise, apparently will suffice. One of them is currently actively attempting to conflate abuse victims with child molesters. It&#8217;s quite repulsive.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine how it must feel, to be that brutal a sadist. Even I&#8217;m not <em>that<\/eM> sort of terrible person, and I&#8217;m a goddamn supervillain.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well. I&#8217;m just glad the Avatar is on our side. o\/<\/p>\n<p><b>eta:<\/b> Hooo, I hadn&#8217;t noticed the comment section on the original post had grown so much &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure whether my favourite comment is the one about how the rules of drama <em>require<\/em> that a strong female character have a <em>stronger<\/em> male love interest, the complaint about how Katara never learned proper submission to Aang, or the assertion that all anime exists to train child molesters.<\/p>\n<p>It is a very strange universe over there.<\/p>\n<p><b>eta2:<\/b> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.angelahighland.com\/2014\/12\/31\/one-last-buzzing-beehive-for-2014\/\">Anna has a post up about the last beehive of 2014<\/a>, and the idea of <em>exterminating ideas<\/eM>, in the way Mr. Writer demands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A science-fiction writer of some notice has taken rather severe exception to the Legend of Korra finale. It&#8217;s the sort of vicious vitroil that I would expect out of Concerned Women for America &#8211; it&#8217;s too crude for the relatively-erudite such as Focus on the Family, and a bit too literate for the cretins at [&#038;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-6671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671","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=6671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}