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[bubosquared]

To: Poppy Z Brite
From: A bewildered ex-fan
Re: This

Yo

WTF? I concur with Ang. your badge of coolness is revoked. Here, have a "Big Fat Hypocrite" one instead.

(Oh and incidentally, it is entirely possible to be biologically female, male-gendered, and yet not rag on women, you know. Just a thought. If you don't believe me, there's this mate of mine you ought to meet.)

Absolutely no love whatsoever,
Melle

Comments

[darksong.livejournal.com]

I think Poppy is a pretty good writer and mostly a nice person (with the couple indirect encounters I've had with her online). I do, however, pretty much think she's a freak, and not so much in a good way.

She has strong opinions, and I don't think she necessarily thinks them through before she says them. I think she likes to try to antagonize people.

I do think it's silly of her to say that slash isn't valid, especially when the books of hers I've read seem to put across the idea you can only find true love and happiness in a male homosexual relationship.

I do agree with your comment on her ragging on women, though--I do think that even if she regards herself as being of the male gender, there's still a part of her that is female. I think we as a society are too busy trying to put things into black and white terms. You can be both, and there's nothing wrong with that.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I really don't like people who say things just to rile others up. I mean, what's the point? Wow, you're brave enough to say a really obnoxious thing you don't even believe in and upset people. How admireable. (I got this a lot on the 'deth boards, and it still annoys me to hell.)

And yeah, I think she's trying to assret herself as "male" by ragging on women, which is just stupid. My best friend's FTM, and I've never seen this behaviour from him. Plus, PZB, as far as I know, doesn't physically identify as/look like a man, so the outside world will still treat her like a woman, whichis bound to give her at least some sort of "female outlook" on life, so WTF was that</i< all about? Will stop rambling now.