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Just Not Interested
Jun. 13th, 2014 10:09 amThere are several people being Wrong On The Internet today, but I find that I'm just not interested in having a massive discussion on the subject. So I'll take a few potshots and call it a day.
Wrong #1 - The Naive Idiocy of Teaching Rapists Not To Rape
This one is brought to you by Larry Correia. His argument is that women should learn self-defense skills to avoid being raped. Now, I personally am all for women (and men, and children) learning appropriate self-defense skills. What Larry misses is that, in a perfect world, people wouldn't need these skills. Trying to prevent violent crime, including by teaching criminals not to be criminals, is always a good idea.
Wrong #2 - Pink SF
Brought to you by my favorite Professional Crank on the Internet (PCotI), this is a ten-point list of what he doesn't like in modern SF. The parts of his list I care to comment on in bold, my translation normal.
It is written in conscious reaction to, and rejection of, the classic genre canon. - Translation: It doesn't slavishly imitate something written for a 1950s pulp magazine.
It consciously elevates current progressive ideology above story, plot, and characterization. The personal is the political and the propaganda is the plot. Translation: I don't actually read any of this stuff, so I have no idea if they have a plot or not.
It subscribes to the anti-scientific myth of human equality. Translation: I'm a racist.
It celebrates and normalizes sexual deviancy. Translation: even though we've had gays since forever, they shouldn't appear in stories unless they are explicitly evil.
Wrong #1 - The Naive Idiocy of Teaching Rapists Not To Rape
This one is brought to you by Larry Correia. His argument is that women should learn self-defense skills to avoid being raped. Now, I personally am all for women (and men, and children) learning appropriate self-defense skills. What Larry misses is that, in a perfect world, people wouldn't need these skills. Trying to prevent violent crime, including by teaching criminals not to be criminals, is always a good idea.
Wrong #2 - Pink SF
Brought to you by my favorite Professional Crank on the Internet (PCotI), this is a ten-point list of what he doesn't like in modern SF. The parts of his list I care to comment on in bold, my translation normal.
It is written in conscious reaction to, and rejection of, the classic genre canon. - Translation: It doesn't slavishly imitate something written for a 1950s pulp magazine.
It consciously elevates current progressive ideology above story, plot, and characterization. The personal is the political and the propaganda is the plot. Translation: I don't actually read any of this stuff, so I have no idea if they have a plot or not.
It subscribes to the anti-scientific myth of human equality. Translation: I'm a racist.
It celebrates and normalizes sexual deviancy. Translation: even though we've had gays since forever, they shouldn't appear in stories unless they are explicitly evil.