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From: "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Conference Cancels SF Author Fox For Refusing To Comply With
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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:00:09 -0500
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On 28/09/2024 22.26, Don wrote:
>      Richard Fox is an incredible sci-fi author with his Ember
>      War series and for Baen Books, and yet Author Nation is
>      choosing to discriminate against conservatives who don't
>      want to play pronoun games.
> 
>      ... Fox chose to mock the question rather than take it
>      seriously in the private survey. He filled out the form
>      with "f***/off," as he rightly didn't want to play the
>      game of gender politics for a conference that is supposed
>      to be about business. ...

Did the poor widdle snowflake get triggered by the big, bad
conference organizers meanly asking people how they prefer to be
addressed? Oh, boo-hoo.

Well, now that I know how Fuck wants me to talk about Off, I'll try to
remember to do so in the future.

> Fox ought to sue for toxic exposure to a known mental health risk:
> 
>      Transgender and gender nonbinary adults in the U.S. are
>      more likely to report worsening memory and thinking,
>      functional limitations and depression compared to
>      cisgender (non-transgender) adults,

Because, of course, the bacteria that makes people trans or non-binary
can be transmitted over a web site. Right.



-- 
Michael F. Stemper
Deuteronomy 24:17