ext_39565 ([identity profile] anansi133.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] baratron 2008-04-03 08:00 pm (UTC)

Some people are dishonest voyeurs, who cluck and tut and say, "Isn't it awful? Oh my, look at that!" while never admitting that they're getting off on it. Some of the worst fundamentalist outrage here in the U.S. concerns itself with inventing elaborate satanic child abuse scenarios... all practiced by their enemies, of course. And when it turns out that it only happens in their own heads, they'll claim religious persecution.

I think it actually takes a certain skill to realistically address this kind of awfulness in a way that doesn't create more drama. It's not to be found in that part of the book industry, because sales would plummet.

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