{"id":12276,"date":"2009-07-26T01:35:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T08:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/07\/26\/12276.html"},"modified":"2009-07-26T01:35:31","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T08:35:31","slug":"tempest-and-ellison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/07\/26\/tempest-and-ellison\/","title":{"rendered":"Tempest and Ellison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(This is another one of those entries that will probably make no sense to people not involved in the speculative-fiction world, and that will probably be too late to be news for people who are. Sorry about that.)<\/p>\n

Tempest posted last week about the fact that Realms of Fantasy<\/cite> covers<\/a> (link has an image that's arguably not work-safe) tend to feature scantily clad women, but never feature scantily clad men. It was a good point, and I was pleased to see that new Realms<\/cite> publisher Warren Lapine appeared to be taking the issue seriously.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, through the transformative miracle of Internet quasi-communication, Harlan Ellison heard some completely incorrect partial information about the situation, and took it upon himself to post some deeply unfortunate and very poorly chosen comments about Tempest. I don't normally comment on Ellison's postings, but this one was pretty awful.<\/p>\n

Things move fast on the Internet, and by the time I managed to get my act together to post this entry, four different people had called Ellison and told him he was wrong, which resulted in his posting a rambly quasi-apology. Fortunately, he had also given Tempest a more explicit and direct apology through back channels.<\/p>\n

Tempest has graciously accepted the apology, and the whole episode now appears to be essentially over.<\/p>\n

But I nonetheless wanted to post about it, albeit belatedly, to say two things:<\/p>\n

First: Tempest, you rock.<\/p>\n

Second: If anyone who hasn't seen it already wants a detailed account of what happened, complete with links, you can stop by Kynn's writeup<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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