Re assumptions: *Holds one finger up with his hand thrust out* You are assuming that because I don't want to be a woman, or pregnant, or an animal, that I think all of these things are bad in some way. That is really incredibly bad deductive reasoning. *I* do not want to be these things. Doesn't mean I don't LIKE them! I love women, and animals. Really not fond of kids though. And as it happens, I wouldn't mind seeing Major Sheppard... well, let's not go there. But he'd have to want it too, it wouldn't be sexy if he was forced. Lots of men wouldn't want to wear a dress, but if that makes us all bigots then there's not much we can discuss here, is there?
Re: Being turned into something I'm not *Holds out two fingers* You're arguing with the wrong person, here. If you want to discuss characterisation, talk to Fledge. As far as I'm concerned, I'm me, and I'm very happy with myself, thank you, and I just happen to be a guy who doesn't like being messed with. I don't think that's unreasonable. And if we're quoting each other back and forth, Poor Simon, he gets nervous and jittery so easily. At least when ficcers abuse him. Hence this whole discussion. If this Simon of yours likes wearing little skirts, why do you call it abuse? There's no problem here, if the man wants it, it isn't harming anyone is it? And if Fledge writes me as someone who wants to wear a skirt, well, then it won't be *me*, will it; it'll be some other McKay, from some other quantum reality, and since there is an infinite number of them, I'm sure there are several McKays who like doing just that. There are probably lots of McKays who are straight, too. That's their affair, but it's not mine. You want to get it straight who you're talking to here--it's me, the muse, not some megalomaniac writer with power issues!
And finally, *holds up a third finger* Re: angst and pain *voice rises, going higher and more rapid with indignation* So what you're saying is that you writers have the right to mess with us just because you want to explore negative issues? That is so unfair! Did anybody ever think to ask *us*, the muses, how *we* feel about it?! No, you didn't, did you. You think you can do anything you want to us, and mould us to your specifications, and that we don't deserve any say in it. It's exploitation, pure and simple, and you can only get away with it because we don't have any real power, the only option left to us is protest. So excuse ME if I'm going to step in to save myself, and anyone else who isn't happy with their treatment in fiction, because if you want something different then you may as well write a McKay who's happy to lie down and let the Wraith suck his life out. And I'm sure people have. If Fledge wants that, then she can go get herself a different muse, because I'm not standing for it. And neither will Major Sheppard--either of him.
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You are assuming that because I don't want to be a woman, or pregnant, or an animal, that I think all of these things are bad in some way. That is really incredibly bad deductive reasoning. *I* do not want to be these things. Doesn't mean I don't LIKE them! I love women, and animals. Really not fond of kids though. And as it happens, I wouldn't mind seeing Major Sheppard... well, let's not go there. But he'd have to want it too, it wouldn't be sexy if he was forced. Lots of men wouldn't want to wear a dress, but if that makes us all bigots then there's not much we can discuss here, is there?
Re: Being turned into something I'm not *Holds out two fingers*
You're arguing with the wrong person, here. If you want to discuss characterisation, talk to Fledge. As far as I'm concerned, I'm me, and I'm very happy with myself, thank you, and I just happen to be a guy who doesn't like being messed with. I don't think that's unreasonable. And if we're quoting each other back and forth, Poor Simon, he gets nervous and jittery so easily. At least when ficcers abuse him. Hence this whole discussion. If this Simon of yours likes wearing little skirts, why do you call it abuse? There's no problem here, if the man wants it, it isn't harming anyone is it? And if Fledge writes me as someone who wants to wear a skirt, well, then it won't be *me*, will it; it'll be some other McKay, from some other quantum reality, and since there is an infinite number of them, I'm sure there are several McKays who like doing just that. There are probably lots of McKays who are straight, too. That's their affair, but it's not mine. You want to get it straight who you're talking to here--it's me, the muse, not some megalomaniac writer with power issues!
And finally, *holds up a third finger* Re: angst and pain *voice rises, going higher and more rapid with indignation* So what you're saying is that you writers have the right to mess with us just because you want to explore negative issues? That is so unfair! Did anybody ever think to ask *us*, the muses, how *we* feel about it?! No, you didn't, did you. You think you can do anything you want to us, and mould us to your specifications, and that we don't deserve any say in it. It's exploitation, pure and simple, and you can only get away with it because we don't have any real power, the only option left to us is protest. So excuse ME if I'm going to step in to save myself, and anyone else who isn't happy with their treatment in fiction, because if you want something different then you may as well write a McKay who's happy to lie down and let the Wraith suck his life out. And I'm sure people have. If Fledge wants that, then she can go get herself a different muse, because I'm not standing for it. And neither will Major Sheppard--either of him.