You may recall a post a few weeks back about how female romance author can’t write as well as men. Turns out all our trouble with readers and reviewers has to do with the same issue, lack of penis!
who knew?
Well other than ‘vidman04’ who posts on Alison Kent blog to tell us silly women how to fix our problems.
Do you want me to tell you what the problem is? 99.9% of romance novelists AND reviewers of romance novels are women. Underneath your sweet smiles, you’re all just conniving, catty, sneaky bitches. That’s why you start anonymous blogs to write snaky (is that the right word?) reviews. You can’t do it as yourself and damage your precious, sweet reputations. Oh, and let’s not forget about the fact that one of those anonymous reviewers might be a closet writer herself and have to submit an MS to one of the very people she’s put down in the past.
Do you think the discussion you’ve been having would even take place in a male-dominated genre. Hell no! Because we say what we think, and we don’t give crap if Dan, Mac and Joe are still gonna love us at the end of the day.
That’s my take on it ladies.
— Vidman04 3/31/2007
Now there are sooooooo many nifty things to poke at on this quote. I don’t even know where to start.
I guess we should visit fandom’s where men are many, you know like star trek, x-files, name any video game here or even the ever nifty netscape forum. Then we silly women should take notes so we can stop flame wars in romanceland.
If you have any questions feel free to contact him, since he isn’t anonymous and left a visable blog and or website to contact him at. Hell I am sure vidman is his real name! Cuz what real man would need to hide behind a fake name. Although ten would get you twenty if you google the name… that is him.
Since that was sarcasm and he didn’t leave an email or website but instead did the very manly thing of explaining the issue to the stupid women and running.
Bwahahaha. Did you see his nonsensical follow up comment. With the first, he seems to be putting down the crying about reviews thing, which was the thrust of the original post, then he almost seemed to be defending Ms. Duncan, while explaining why women can never be world leaders. Because men are always upfront and straightforward.
I’m so glad a man came along to set all of us overemotional, weak, feminine types straight, though. I feel much better now that a penis came along to shine the light of truth on the subject. All hail the phallus of wisdom!
I hate that 99.9% thing. It’s weaselly. Everyone agrees with me except for the teeny lunativ fringe which doesn’t. And I see from some of the Google entries that he sometimes uses 99.99%. Guess we girls are harder to “trend”.
Dick.
Men are evil. . . Which makes me think of “Kiss Me Kate” and the song “I Hate Men”.
I hate men/They should be kept like piggies in a pen.
So true!
What I found offensive was that women would actually come to his defense. But maybe it was a case of not wanting to be mean. I honestly don’t get it.
That was very odd, the way Ms.Duncan was like “yeah, alright!” Especially since I thought his first comment was mocking her type of pov. Very odd…
I have to admit, Ms. Duncan made me laugh, although that probably wasn’t her intent. I checked out one of her blogs and I think she’s 20 years old. I can’t help but wonder if her (naive) statements are a product of her youth? Maybe in ten years or so she’ll look back at her statements in embarrassment. I hope she still has some growing up to do because, if not, that’s just scary. Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed your responses to her comments, particularly:
“Play on… I think you were telling us how good a
person you are and how we should follow suit?
::listens avidly::”
And I cannot even begin to describe how upset I am over Vidmanwhoever’s comments. And the fact that Ms. Duncan would agree with him?!?! Did she even read what he said? Or understand? Again, I hope its her youth (not that I think every 20 year old suffers from Ms. Duncan’s limited thinking) and that someday soon she’ll grow up.
I missed Vidman’s comments, I didn’t realise that the conversation had continued.
I wasn’t in the least surprised that Maria kinda missed the whole point of his rhetoric, she doesn’t appear to be the brightest spark in the box.
By the way, for some reason, I can’t copy and paste your stuff anymore. Any reason for that?
Unfortunately, because there are absolute placements of different objects on the page, it won’t allow you to use the copy and paste feature. I guess I am going to have to figure out how to do an elastic, relative style for this.
By the way, for some reason, I can’t copy and paste your stuff anymore. Any reason for that?
I can copy and paste in foxfire but I can’t in IE.