Wow, this is a phenomenal bit of fail.

[apocalypsos]

Women are not passionate enough about sex and concentrate too much on feelings to be able to write raunchy stories, the new owner of Britain's Erotic Review said on Monday.

Okay, after I stopped laughing hysterically, I noticed this is a WOMAN saying this.

How freaking stupid and out-of-touch with the writing community and women in general do you have to be to not know what a profound load of crap that is?

Oh, oh, my favorite bit:

"It's almost like writing about food ... Ladies who lunch, should not really write about food because they don't really love food. They don't salivate at the thought of a great steak."

Speak for yourself, you twit. My last meal's going to be a damn steak. Blood rare. Just bring a cow into the kitchen and let it look at the oven in horror.

And now I want a steak. Fuuuuuuck.

Comments

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

I do like Jezebel referring to this as "all-women-suck-but-me exceptionalism". Because...yeah, that's it. FFS.

[telaryn.livejournal.com]

THIS.

Holy crap, can we please vote this woman out of our gender? Epic fail doesn't even begin to cover it.

I desperately want to start shooting fic-links at her. Her brain will explode, and then we won't have to suffer through any more of her misogynistic crap.

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

Also, girls don't poop.

[rubykatewriting.livejournal.com]

HAHA. So we just do like a reverse osmosis thing with our unused waste? And it comes out as sparkles and smells of perfume?

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Sometimes, depending on the individual, there are kittens as well.

[suaine.livejournal.com]

I guess that would explain Twilight vampires.

[marag.livejournal.com]

Yup, I don't know any women who can write raunchy stories. None. Nope. None at all.

I mean, other than a few hundred fanfic writers. ::coughs:: (Thousand? I actually have no idea how many writers there are, or what percentage write porn. Pardon me, erotica.)

[azurelunatic]

I used to be in a writers group that met at a local women's center. Evidently my then-roommate introducing herself as "I'm Heather and I write porn" did not fly. Neither, evidently, did "male/male erotica." We left soon after.

[janissa11.livejournal.com]

That's really, truly annoying.

[conuly]

Um.... Wow. That's a whole special brand of special right there.

[suaine.livejournal.com]

What a sexist pig that woman is. I feel dirty and not in the good way.

[heather.livejournal.com]

Dude, I just saw this. Such epic, epic fail.

And another thing...

[telaryn.livejournal.com]

Why do feelings automatically have to be divorced from the idea of a raunchy bout of sport-fucking?

The two concepts are not mutually exclusive - and as others have said, there are thousands of links that can back me up on this.

(I find this all hysterically ironic on a day when I finish my first Castiel/Dean/Sam fic.)

[rubykatewriting.livejournal.com]

Another person on the flist linked this, and I was like, clearly, this lady needs to get out more. Has she never been to Texas? We're like all about the steak. We have a yearly shindig OVER A MONTH AND HALF dedicated to the cow and the pig and the various ways we can embarrass ourselves chasing after both all while people watch and eat said pig and cow.

And considering some of the fic I've read in my ten years in fandom? YEAH, FAIL, LADY, FAIL.

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

...Yeah, we don't even ask anymore how you get from 'Check out what this dummy wrote about porn' to 'I can has steak?'

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Well, you know. Women just don't get passionate about nasty physical things like sex or food. We just DON'T.

Which is why I NEVER, EVER plot slash stories while making dinner. And you KNOW how I HATE food. Just. HATE it.

[modillian.livejournal.com]

Okay, that really really is super-ridiculous. What about, eh, the entire romance genre? That shit ain't exactly all delicate-flowers-petals and rosy cheeks either. I mean, a lot of it IS, but a lot of it ISN'T, too. 8|||

Aw, man. I don't know where it is, but there's a feministing or pandagon post somewhere about that ridiculous brand of sparkling chocolate advertising itself as a "naughty" pleasure, and the post talks about how these basic human pleasures like eating and having sex are culturally linked, in that they are denied for women to fully enjoy, that the western culture says women have to be naughty or bad to have the audacity to ENJOY them. Yup, women have to find enjoying eating and enjoying sex (as opposed to doing it only healthily/out of obligation) as GUILTY INDULGENCES, YOU NASTY GIRL YOU, LIKING CHEAP CHOCOLATE AND MISSIONARY-POSITION SEX.

>.>>>>> Fuck, society really does hate and dehumanize women. YOU'RE NOT HUMAN LIKE MEN, ONLY HUMANZ LIKE MEN SHOULD ENJOY THE FULL CAPACITIES OF THEIR BODIES. NOW PUT DOWN THAT CHOCOLATE CAKE YOU JUST BAKED IN YOUR KITCHEN FOR YOURSELF AND GIVE IT TO THE MENZ INSTEAD. THEY NEED IT MORE THAN YOU, YOU HEATHEN EVE-EVIL WOMAN, AND YOU DON'T DESERVE TO ENJOY IT AS MUCH AS MEN. OH, AND ALSO, THEY NEED SEX NOW TOO, SO GO LIE DOWN AND THINK OF ENGLAND NOW, BECAUSE MEN HAVE NEEEDS THAT ARE GREATER THAN YOURS AND YOUR ENJOYMENT.

Uh, now I've disgusted myself.

[modillian.livejournal.com]

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/02/09/target-women-chocolate/
or maybe it was sarah haskins. aha, love that woman.

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/05/18/because-regular-chocolate-bars-are-way-too-masculine/

[lothlorienbaby.livejournal.com]

The best part is where she pretty much says that her statement applies to all other women and not to her. Clearly she feels she is the only woman on earth who fully enjoys sex. And clearly she has never read Anais Nin.

[chandri.livejournal.com]

Okay, one day, the mainstream media will be made up of people who've actually used the Internet all their lives and this nonsense will be over. o.O

[dargie.livejournal.com]

Boy is THAT woman out of touch. I used to make a nice living writing porn for the sort of magazines that people take with them into the bathroom on their breaks.

And not like food? I didn't end up looking like this because I don't like food.

Jesus. I could use a good steak, too.

[laughingrat.livejournal.com]

Wow. Aside from the fact that the assertion is, well, hilariously inaccurate, this gets at the issue of "What is sex?" and who defines it. Like the fact that we call everything except "penis inserted into [hole]" foreplay, for instance. Really? Foreplay? For a lot of people--maybe men as well as ladies, if men could get away with admitting it--that so-called "foreplay" is the best sex evar.

Oh, but it's not really sex. Uh huh.

OK OK, I'll stop talking about issues with defining "sex" in a culture based on dominance, and just snicker heartily at that silly person who thinks women can't write HAWT SEX FIC. You know, while I'm reading some slash.

EDIT: I, too, could use a steak. AND I HAVE ONE IN THE FRIDGE, AW YISS.

[sabotabby]

Wait, what?

[writerrising.livejournal.com]

I totally thought this was a man until I saw your part about being a woman.

Ladies who lunch? What century is this woman from? Although I've never been to Britain, so maybe that's a normal form of speech there.

What bugs me about the first quote is that she generalizes about all women, except herself apparently. At least the second quote has a specific kind of person it's using as an example, but um...I eat lunch and happen to still salivate over a truly good meal..so...

Yeah, this woman can take her stuck up shit and shove it where the rest of the shit in her body is located.

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

Oh hell to the naw.

Also: Copstick *snicker*

(Icon is KIND OF related)

[ficangel.livejournal.com]

HA. HAHAHAHAHAHA. I spent my lunch and both breaks today writing a double-penetration four-way for my Kink Bingo. In great detail, and it was fun.