Because thin-skinned over-invested fans (generally fans, for that matter, of books and media that are not very good) and assorted types are the funniest, easiest people to troll and ridicule in the whole wide world. Now includes pro authors.
- Exhibit A: a white dude very upset at this blog’s “unquenchable hatred for Caucasians.”
- Exhibit B: rabid Jim Butcher fans are easily upset. And heterophobia is totally a real thing, okay?
- Exhibit C: another Jim Butcher troglodyte. I’ve concluded that everyone who enjoys Jim Butcher uncritically is a troglodyte.
- Exhibit D: a certain… type of Star Wars fans, as originated from this review.
- Exhibit E: Scott Bakker is so so mad. UPDATE: not once, but three times. Keeping in mind that I made no further posts on him in the interim, which means that my entry in August 2011 so enraged him that he kept posting about it in February 2012. Of note: when you google up “r scott bakker,” my post from August 2011 will now show as a first-page result. Generally ranked third or fourth. Bakker has attributed his drop in sales to this and other charges of misogyny.
- Exhibit F: the tears of a white dude, a poor victim of racism and feminists.
- Exhibit G: westeros.org gritty grimdark fans want a say on lesbian rape and why it is completely fine and makes perfect narrative sense in Joe Abercrombie’s work.
- Exhibit H: another day, another hive of dudebro roaches! “She has made herself a target,” no less. D’awww.
- Exhibit I: another day, another shriek of AGENDA!! tl;dr: someone is insecure about being male.
- Exhibit J: an R. Scott Bakker fanboy, or Patient Zero: Testeria. Something about bullying.
- Exhibit K: “shrill, crazy, harpy” plus an endorsement of institutionized misogyny. Unsurprisingly, co-owns Westeros.org. Anne Bishop is serious business.
- Exhibit L: Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist – the buttmad that never ends, it goes on and on, my friends.
- Exhibit M: Peter Watts is very very angry and more than a little bit racist.
