First times

[wiseheart]

Firstly, the good one: I went to Etka Yoga for the first time today. It's not yoga in the traditional sense, rather a series of stretching and twisting exercises, which will probably be good for my bad back. I have no high hopes for the hissing and whistling noises in my ear that I've been having on and off for months by now. All women in our family had them, at least up to three generations. It's stress related, and once it appears, it won't go away again. But one learns to live with it. Etka Yoga is fun, though, so I'll go there again.

Secondly, I got my first rabid homophobe reviewer. Some idiot poured out his/her hatred against homosexuality in general and slash fic in particular on my FF.Net review board, leaving a long rant disguised as a review for "The Equinox Logs". More or less along the line "you write well, why do you write such utter shit and why don't you warn us poor, sensitive souls that there will be perverted stuff".

Idiots tire me so much.

Comments

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you had to suffer such an idiot running into you. The least negative thing I can say about it is `Well, it keeps them from the street'.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, it keeps them from the street'

Very true. As long as he - because I'm almost certain that it was a man - bashes my story, he isn't out bashing real people for being gay. It has been my experience that while there are horribly prudish women (and not a small number of them), the really raving homophobes are usually men. As if they felt threatened by their fellow males who aren't interested in the same things as they are.

I still won't put up slash warnings in my stories. Everyone with an FF.Net account is supposed to be older than 13, and everyone older than 13 can be expected to tolerate things they don't like. We tolerate the homophobes, too, and I most certainly don't like them.

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

Good for you! At least he's taking it on fics - here in my town of residence, the charitable organization of the Catholic Church has said it will stop arranging adoptions rather than be forced to continue allowing homosexual couples to adopt children. Now, mind you, they've been quietly doing just that for many years: several dozen kids have been placed over that time with no reports of any problems. But this is the New and Improved Church, morally consistent through and through (we'll just overlook that little child sex abuse problem), and it's better for hard-to-place kids to bounce around the foster system than to have stable homes with the damned, I suppose.

As to ranting about a fanfic which *absolutely no one* forced this poor sod to read, I sometimes fear the downside of the 21st century ability to buy / listen to / watch exactly what we want exactly when we want to is making folks far less willing to have even a moment of their time consumed by something that isn't exactly what they want to experience. But if one is never exposed to anything different, anything possibly disagreeable, how does one grow? A mind unchallenged gets rusty and covered in cobwebs. I may not agree with everything I read, but at least it makes me think about my own beliefs and why I hold them.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, it certainly could have been expected that with Pope Ratzinger the Catholic Church will do further steps back to the Middle Ages. Or, actually, to a time after the Middle Ages, as during the so-called Dark Age there was actually sacramental marriage for people of the same gender. I've put up a link in one of my entries a year or so ago, with the subject "To Pope John Paul II - with love!", or something like that. I might dig out that link again.

As for the reader, I absolutely agree with you. That's why I'm not willing to put up slash warnings. Or het warnings.