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Comment on Fifty Shades of Oh God I Will Never Be Able To Unsee This by Rachel Harding

Rachel Harding — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:13:39 +0000

Ah your footnote gives you away Joff – come on, admit that the writing brings you out in hives. My cat can write better, and I don’t even have a cat.

That aside, I agree with every word – thank you for the catharsis.

Mrs Chris Harding

Comment on About me by Sandra Johnstone

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Comment on Father’s Day Feminism by Alyson

Alyson — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:54:17 +0000

I’ve seen pink fathers’ day cards. Unfortunately they usually have a picture of a little blonde girl in a dressed up as a ballerina, or something else involving frills and impractical footwear, with a message like “from your little princess”. Sometimes these make me want to vomit even more than the ones with stereotypical man-things on them.

Comment on Father’s Day Feminism by Emm

Emm — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 22:39:06 +0000

My dad is similarly not into beer, football, golf or fishing. As a long-term beard wearer, shaving is also out.

I’ve previously given my dad blank cards with art on them, saying all the fathers’ day cards were awful.
I found a card with two elephants on it this year – a childhood interest, so it was even appropriate. It was blue though, but at least there was no cringey poem.

Comment on A Genderswitched Anthology by Philip Purser-Hallard

Philip Purser-Hallard — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:59:48 +0000

Someone pointed me to this on Twitter. It’s a fascinating idea, but I’m wondering what you do when you run up against actual biology — heroines getting pregnant, for instance, or characters whose fathers are too elderly to be their biological mothers. Does Lord (formerly Lady) Macbeth still say “I have given suck”?

It seems to me that assuming an alternative biology in which men are impregnated by women and breastfeed their children would mean you weren’t saying anything meaningful about actual men and women, just changing the words you use to refer to them. But to avoid that you’d have to go a lot further and tinker with plot as well as text. Would be interesting to know your thoughts…

Comment on A Genderswitched Anthology by Rose Fox

Rose Fox — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 05:36:33 +0000

Hee, just spotted a “my dear fellow” in Portrait–it is rather untranslatable!

Comment on A Genderswitched Anthology by James Wallis

James Wallis — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:16:32 +0000

I am honoured to have been allowed to lend a tiny hand in helping you get this delightful book out.

Comment on The Picture of Daria Gray by Fausterella » A Genderswitched Anthology

Fausterella » A Genderswitched Anthology — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:20:14 +0000

[...] So if your curiosity is piqued, James Eyre and Other Genderswitched Stories is available in paperback for about £5.99 or on Kindle for about £1.50 depending where you are – links below. If neither works for you and you’d like a .pdf, email me on fausterella at gmail and we can sort something out. In the meantime, have a freebie chapter: Chapter 1 of The Picture of Daria Gray. [...]

Comment on Prejudice and Pride: Singing Jane Austen’s Song by Fausterella » A Genderswitched Anthology

Fausterella » A Genderswitched Anthology — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:09:20 +0000

[...] I self-published Prejudice and Pride last year, I decided my next endeavour would be James Eyre. However, partway through editing it, I [...]

Comment on Can men be funny? by admin

admin — Thu, 31 May 2012 13:50:57 +0000

Ha!

When I google for the phrase it brings up this post and references to it, almost entirely. Which is nice in a way, but also kind of justifies my rather heavy-handed satire.