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Comment on Starsky and Hutch by Tiffany W

Tiffany W — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:15:34 +0000

Hey I have been checking out your site for the past month and it is good stuff, do you have a RSS feed?

Comment on Funny video by Salvatore Rumore

Salvatore Rumore — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:49:40 +0000

Just landed on this post via Google research. I love it. This situation switch my perception and I am obtaining the RSS feeds. Cheers Up.

Comment on Ratings by Gargantua

Gargantua — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:06:21 +0000

You aren’t alone. I had no idea fanfiction had its own rating system either. Wow.

Comment on Wtf? Insane fantasies by Tari

Tari — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:30:45 +0000

1. This is nothing to laugh about, and yes, I am surprised.
2. Yes, fantasy is fantasy, if it stays inside your own mind. If not, see below.
3. It’s already happened. That’s one reason this sort of thing upsets me so much. One guy, admittedly not a very smart one, used this as a defense in court. ‘Girls love that sort of thing’. I don’t think he was lying, he was just that stupid. And if it’s happened, once, it can happen again. So, it’s a fact that more than one woman has been raped because of other women’s fantasies. In fact, one might argue that you and all the other women with this kind of fantasy could be considered accessories to the rapists. Have you ever considered that?

Comment on Wtf? Insane fantasies by Fen

Fen — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:34:56 +0000

1. LOL at you being surprised at this?

2. Fantasy is fantasy, and completely legit. People have a lot of fantasies. Fantasy rape is completely different from real rape. (Of course, to those with triggers, there might be upsetting outward similarities.)

3. I don’t see how one woman’s fantasy could get another woman raped? Unless somehow men got the idea from one woman’s admitted fantasy that all women wanted to be raped in real life (which is a real trend we have to educate against – yes means yes). And it’s true if one woman admitted she had a rape fantasy and a man took it too far, that would be a real concern, but that’s why we have safe words and scenes and consent.

Comment on Wtf? Insane fantasies by Tari

Tari — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:09:33 +0000

So getting other women raped is pretty much nothing to worry about in your book? Of course, that’s pretty much what I expected from you people. Charming.

Comment on Wtf? Insane fantasies by IsaacSapphire

IsaacSapphire — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:43:32 +0000

“If someone had asked me a couple of years ago, if I believed women had fantasies about being raped I would have said no.”

Have you ever cracked an older (circa 1950-1970 and not a few later ones, even to this day) romance novel? There’s rape and borderline-rape all over the place in them.

“That’s something they should consider before they admit to having these fantasies.”

Sounds kind of like you want to shame a lot of women for having a very common fantasy, one that can be a bit unnerving to have in the first place, because “Their misguided fantasies can make life more difficult for other women (or even ruin their lives forever)”.

So woman A isn’t allowed to own her sexual fantasy and work on becoming a complete sexual being, because woman B, off somewhere in the foggy world, might have a more difficult life because of it? Yes, this fact can be twisted and misused by the patriarchy (actually, it has been for hundreds of years already. See: Freud) That doesn’t mean that with a proper understanding of the difference between real and pretend, between make-believe and truth, that these fantasies can’t be explored and mined for lessons, healing, and eroticism.

Stuff like this is why third wave feminism came out. I know that this precise issue has been addressed by women much more eloquent and intelligible than I.

Comment on Some do it in bed by Sit N Go Journal

Sit N Go Journal — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:50:22 +0000

Sit N Go

Really enjoyed that article,tell me do you have any other blogs? Why not come and write for me I have a wicked article site you could submit article for?

Comment on Writing Original Fiction Again by ketzer2008

ketzer2008 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:30:23 +0000

sorry )
what fandom you’re writing in?

Comment on Improving your writing by Susan Kind

Susan Kind — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:38:39 +0000

These are great recommendations. I’d say the most important one is reading. The more exposure people give themselves to the written word, the more the conventions of writing will drill themselves into their heads.