{"id":84,"date":"2004-12-10T01:10:03","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T05:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/10\/making-light-of-gerald-allen\/"},"modified":"2004-12-11T23:11:11","modified_gmt":"2004-12-12T03:11:11","slug":"making-light-of-gerald-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/10\/making-light-of-gerald-allen\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Light Of Gerald Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was getting pretty depressed about the whole Gerald Allen story<\/a> (which I had previously commented<\/a> on) and then I read Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s take on the piece<\/a>. She skewers him so thoroughly that I felt immensely better. (Later on, of course, when I start wondering why the mass of Americans, and the Administration in particular, doesn’t see what she sees I’ll get depressed again, but I’m happy now.)<\/p>\n

\nThat man is dumber than two bags of hammers on a slow Thursday night. If a lifetime of constant exposure to positive depictions of heterosexuality doesn\u2019t turn children straight, how is it that an occasional depiction of homosexuality is going to turn them gay?<\/p>\n

You know what he\u2019s really saying, don\u2019t you? He\u2019s saying that gay sex has straight sex beat all hollow<\/em>, that\u2019s what.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Teresa is a brilliant woman, by the way, and I rarely regret any time I spend reading Making Light<\/a>. Also, she has been excommunicated, which is enough on its own to make a person a hero in my books.<\/p>\n

Oh, and since I’m name dropping, I once had a lovely midnight lunch at Chang Mai<\/a> with her and Neil Gaiman. Mostly I sat there like an idiot while they discussed some changes to American Gods, but it was enough to know she’s just as bright in person as she is in print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was getting pretty depressed about the whole Gerald Allen story (which I had previously commented on) and then I read Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s take on the piece. She skewers him so thoroughly that I felt immensely better. (Later on, of course, when I start wondering why the mass of Americans, and the Administration in particular, doesn’t see what she… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-head-explodes","category-political","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-1m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}