You were criticizing a genre, but in such an overwhelmingly aggressive manner that it's impossible to read your essay without taking it as a personal insult. You pretty much said that everyone who writes Marauder slash is only doing so because they're obsessed with sex, and went on to call us brutish, possessed of bad taste, perverted, and self-delusional, even though you don't know any of us and haven't read our stories. If you read a few then you'd know how inaccurate those descriptions are. If you've been unjustly attacked for one of your own fics, I would've thought that'd make you more sympathetic and less likely to make such attacks yourself; surely you know how petty they are. How can you claim to be familliar with the implied general attitude behind a style of fic you don't even read? That just doesn't make sense.
At any rate, make up your mind: are you saying that I was wrong in not reading any Marauder slash and that my opponents were wrong in attacking my fic without reading it, or that the both of us were right?
The first. It's not fair to pronounce such negative opinions without first having solid evidence on which to ground those opinions, for you or those who went after your own fic.
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Date: 2004-08-24 02:26 pm (UTC)At any rate, make up your mind: are you saying that I was wrong in not reading any Marauder slash and that my opponents were wrong in attacking my fic without reading it, or that the both of us were right?
The first. It's not fair to pronounce such negative opinions without first having solid evidence on which to ground those opinions, for you or those who went after your own fic.