oh, worm?

This was their response.

Both emails were sent May 5th between publicly available emails. I did not respond to their email, because I said I wouldn't, and because I felt thoroughly misunderstood (of all things, why would I want to be unblocked? I didn't want or need to look at their blog. I also didn't feel like I'd blamed their follower's behavior on them, I just implied that their followers would care more about Greer's opinion than mine) and had no desire to continue to be. I did not go to the post either, as Greer's methods of dealing with Internet conflict were happening openly to merit the exchange at all and they didn't strike me as very helpful if it's what Greer was already doing. Greer's posts about me or my review evidently continued (I was passed the occasional update, through dashboard or friends, whether or not I wanted it - my blacklisting of Greer's URL can't affect a screenshot), though I'm sure those drove people to look for a cause just as much as a request to be polite to others would have.

I have held to the opinion that harassment is not a way to fix the issues present in Sir Cameron and I have also held to my review as being one that was done in good faith to someone sharing an artistic space with me as a peer, not intending to punch down or belittle anyone because I do genuinely believe that the flaws in Sir Cameron could have been made by any author, myself included. If it is "mean" to point out those flaws at all, then I suppose I am mean.

There have been claims from others that I have more influence than Greer, which is laughable. I have less than 10k follows across both of my blogs, and a much smaller active follower count after my extended inactivity and how long both blogs have been around (and how rarely I check for bots). This blog, as the one I posted to, has 3k. I am also not the first to point out the issues in Sit Cameron, nor do I believe myself to be the meanest by a long shot (one post has screenshots of someone else's review and then later links to mine, which has muddied the waters, though the writer of the screenshotted review has tried to clarify things. I did not reblog it to do the same as I felt the tone of the screenshotted review was too harsh).

I don't write reviews for authors of the books involved, though I wanted to ensure it could be informative for them as well; I write them for readers, and for other writers in the sphere who (like myself) benefit from the reminder that unintended bias can color a work in unwanted ways. I have had a lot of people thank me for that reminder in relation to their own works, just as I have had many reasons thank me for warnings prior to their own reads, which many still continued.

If I am to be the source of a harassment campaign: I don't want it. My posts since the review have focused on the responses the public has had to the review, and I have little interest in Greer personally as I never intended to be involved with them to begin with. I did not trawl their blog when they unblocked me, but used the chance to block them, as I hadn't done so earlier and it's quite annoying to do on mobile Tumblr otherwise.

I still hold no ill will to them. I don't blame my harassment (brief as it ended up being) on them or their actions, I just wanted a statement on harassment in general in the hopes that their influence was greater than mine, as I've posted to try and defend them as well. I recognize fully that it was stupid of me, but at the time I was feeling cornered and desperate, and I believed they would understand.

I've already said repeatedly if there is harassment, I don't want to be lauded for it, nor do I want my work to be the justification. If you want to condemn the book, read it for yourself and come to your own conclusions, and do it far away from me. I do not believe it is a functional way to deal with disappointment in a work or its author and it helps no one. I suppose if telling people to not be mean and to not use my work as an excuse to be mean is additional harassment, I've been harassing the hell out of them. I stand by that Sir Cameron is rife with misogyny, racism, transmisogyny, and a disappointing handing of sexual assault, but I do not believe it is harassment to point out the flaws in a published work, nor do I intend to rescind that criticism over the author's personal feelings about having readers feel that way.

Greer has been defended to me by a third party as "[a] transgender, disabled, severely chronically ill autistic new author", and thus was implied to be too fragile to criticize. Well, I'm all of those things too, plus all the way down to "white Canadian", so it puts us on even ground. If you want to talk about me so bad, you have my permission to just name drop me and get it over with 🙄 I have better things to be doing.

Cursed

when did the time

all pass me by?

summers flew

king and unwanted son

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Also getting in my feelings a bit, may the leopards not go hungry.