[the_old_crowd] Re: It's Come To This...

[Eileen Rebstock]

Arrogance and childishness? Not seeing it there. I think you're reading
in your own general annoyances with Rowling, particularly in that
assumption that she isn't taking a first shot at her daughters.

But then I've never bought the argument that Rowling owes the H/Hr
shippers anything either.

Or that Melissa and Emerson are morally deficient.

I think I mentioned before that this has made me unpopular in certain
parts of the fandom? 

Eileen, Stubborn as always

> -----Original Message-----
> From: the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com
[mailto:the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of Talisman
> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 3:39 PM
> To: the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [the_old_crowd] Re: It's Come To This...
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> --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at ...>
> wrote:
> >> Well, now there is a real rant in Extra Stuff...
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> 
> Ah, I see.  That, and the WOMBAT score card have arrived since last
> I peeked.
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> Girls only huh? As if men are nowhere complicit in that business.
> 
> Well it's just swell if she wants to use the site as a more direct
> pulpit for changing the world, but not a great deal of fun.
> 
> (Laughing at fat people is only funny when it's Dudley, remember
> that.)
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> But trashing Paris Hilton & Co. is hardly original.  The problems of
> eating disorders and negative self-image are not new, nor are any of
> her insights.
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> It's fine if Momma Rowling wants to throw her weight (at least
> metaphoricaly) at the problem; maybe take a first shot on behalf of
> her daughters (who will certainly have enough cash to run with the
> Hiltons).
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> But, sometimes less is more when we are talking, too.
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> Seems to me she managed to mention (twice) that her own waist is
> thin.  And if it ever wasn't quite as thin, it was due to a very
> recent baby. un-huh. No one's calling you fat, dear.
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> But something else seems to be swelling...and it's not her modesty.
> 
> *I'm not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with
> being a writer and earning a living with my brain...*
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> (Trust me, that's just what I'm judging you on.)
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> Well, nanny-nanny-nah-nah.
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> :: looks for the recent glamour shot Kneasy brought to our
> attention::  Oh, never mind.
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> Between that and her thumbs-up to the MuggleNet wall of shame
> (continuing volleys in the war with H & H shippers) she is showing
> an...interesting...attitude.
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> Bit arrogant and childish--and don't get me wrong--these are some of
> my own most charming attributes--but, there you are.
> 
> Perhaps there are fans who want to hear hear about all this.
> 
> I'd rather just hear about the books (I hope that makes her happy),
> and I think these last site offerings suck.
> 
> XP
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