Vile homophobe alert: John C. Wright

[feuervogel]

Science fiction writer John C. Wright lets his vile, rampant homophobia loose in his LJ. He compares... well, I'll let John speak for himself here:

I will explain. The parts where I am hoping various sexual perversions will be portrayed in a positive light in future shows is sarcasm. The part where I condemn Sci-Fi for their political correctness is on the level.

The part where I question how we, as a nation, got into a situation where the failure to promote sexual perversion is regarded as shameful is a serious question.

I am equating homosexuality with sadomasochism, pederasty, necrophilia, bestiality, and other sexual neuroses. While a technical distinction can be drawn between them, they share the fundamental property of being objectively disordered appetites.

Well then. I'm voting with my wallet, and I'm sure others of you might consider doing so as well.

ETA, 8/14/09, 8:20 am: He closed comments and they all went poof. He's also claiming that only "one or two people" said they'd boycott his book. ROFL. When I last looked around 8 pm last night, it was a lot closer to one or two HUNDRED.

ETA: 8/14/09, 4 pm: He nuked the whole post!

Comments

[tsubaki-ny.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you didn't know -- I'd have warned you about him three years back. He showed up on Fandom Wank as well. (Also calls his wife an "authoress" on his wiki page, and Obama an affirmative action president. Oh, and considers Zoe from Firefly offensive and demeaning to women because women can't fight in wars because men should protect them, and having them there is demeaning for men... I dunno, it's in the unofficial Firefly critical essays book. Also, I kind of despised his writing style before I knew anything about him anyway.)

[corpsefairy.livejournal.com]

I've never even heard of him, but I sure as hell ain't buying any of his books.

[smarriveurr.livejournal.com]

Wow. Well, that's... disturbing. I love how people can't seem to get around the idea of "Hey, look, sex between two consenting adults who want to have sex isn't actually the same as sex between an adult and a child, or an adult and a corpse."

Likewise, if you're in relationship that involved BDSM... society doesn't give a shit. You aren't denied marriage rights. You aren't going to get beat up for PDA. At most, you get funny looks. So... yeah, society already tolerates a lot of "perversion" by default.

This guy... just... We need e-bitchslaps.

[kirin]

See, I'd be totally useless talking to any "social conservatives" of this stripe because the only problem I have with *any* of the things on his list of supposed deviancies is the insuperable power-imbalance problems with the last three. Actually, you might be able to get around it in necrophilia with a properly laid-out will.

Pointing out that I think around half of the stupid "slippery slope" arguments people come up with would actually be perfectly fine results doesn't tend to help the cause in mainstream discourse, unfortunately.

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

I couldn't finish reading his diatribe. I really don't see any need to expose myself to this crap - at least no more than to know it exists and to dispise it.

There was a time when I night have read his books but that throughly turns me off him.

[leora.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard of him, but yeah, that's pretty bad. Plus he also apparently has an issue with people who practice BDSM.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Yikes! Never heard of him, will never buy his books now. Ugh. Just reading that makes me feel dirty.

[fluffymaru.livejournal.com]

...and another one bites the dust.

Sci-Fi and Fantasy authors are badddddddddd about opening their big, fat mouths, releasing their inner insanity.

This one is, by far, the worse. I'm going to have issues shelving this guy. Fortunately, I'm happy to report that I only re-shelve his books MAYBE once every two months, if even. So he's not doing that well :) Well, at least not at our store.

[m-banu.livejournal.com]

Not everyone can be Robert Heinlein. :)

It seems as though one of the concerns that gets masked by his disapproval of homosexuality in general is the point that the Sci-Fi Channel's visible homosexuality will probably just be part of an increase in the pulpy alien sex-bot style of science fiction programming, rather than the sort of thoughtful sci-fi that a lot of people keep hoping for.

In an elaboration he makes in the comments section, it seems as though he is actually directing his anger at same-sex advocates whom he feels are insincere about the cause and are using it as a front to hide the fact that they are really attempting to promote an irresponsible hedonism. (Although admittedly his dislike of homosexuality is also pretty clear.)


Is an irrational lust and longing to mimic the mating act with a sex with which one cannot mate, at its root, any more or less disconnected to reality than an irrational fear and hatred of a Negro?

If you remove the bias dripping from his rant, this is actually kind of an interesting question, considering that both racist fear and homosexual love are primarily emotional in nature.

Runner up quote-of-the-rant!

Why is it that the lack of self control in sexual matters, where self control is paramount, is held to be immaculate and beyond reproach, whereas the lack of self-control when it comes to something trivial smoking tobacco is scorned?

For those coming in late, http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:http://johncwright.livejournal.com/269139.html?thread=8182099

(Although this also raises the concern of Google apparently caching things and simply not including a cache link rather than actually respecting robots.txt exclusions)

[stormsdotter.livejournal.com]

Hai! I saw your comment on jimhines' LJ and wandered over, and I am adding you to my friends list.

I'm a pro-GLBT writer-in-progress.

[siberianchan.livejournal.com]

One word for that.

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