What got him finally kicked off Black Gate was his column in which he claimed the female authors of SFWA are the corruptors of the Neb. This under guise of supposedly explaining why amazon purged authors from reviewing or something.
How he was allowed to write on BG at all -- I was astonished when 'Theo' showed up there -- another signal that the site was losing value -- voicing anti-woman and other anti-rational claimes all over the place.
Why this particular one got him taken off Black Gate when he'd voiced just as bad other stuff before -- though not about SFWA and the female members specifically.
As far as his chances of being elected, he surely knows as well as anyone that since SFWA has so many female members who are also voters, this is unlikely. Also he should understand that his platform which is to reform the Neb process -- that the SFWA prez isn't a divine right of kings and he can't implement anything without the vote of the membership and of the Board of Directors.
But then, the whole Neb and SFWA recurrency of the same old same old got me to drop my own membership some years back (and yes, I served on the Neb jury and the election committee when a member).
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Date: 2013-02-01 07:46 pm (UTC)How he was allowed to write on BG at all -- I was astonished when 'Theo' showed up there -- another signal that the site was losing value -- voicing anti-woman and other anti-rational claimes all over the place.
Why this particular one got him taken off Black Gate when he'd voiced just as bad other stuff before -- though not about SFWA and the female members specifically.
As far as his chances of being elected, he surely knows as well as anyone that since SFWA has so many female members who are also voters, this is unlikely. Also he should understand that his platform which is to reform the Neb process -- that the SFWA prez isn't a divine right of kings and he can't implement anything without the vote of the membership and of the Board of Directors.
But then, the whole Neb and SFWA recurrency of the same old same old got me to drop my own membership some years back (and yes, I served on the Neb jury and the election committee when a member).
Love, C.