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sheswatchingEven with his "proviso" at the top, it's so so so so hard not to judge Eoin after his latest short story.
I'm not sure if he's trying to be edgy (at your age, Eoin? really?) or what, but this?
This face belongs to that social anomaly, the gay air hostess. The gay air hostess is another beast entirely separate from real life, it's emasculated, yet bizarrely has a position of power in that this creature, clearly wishing it was a female getting a good ride from behind, can tell bigger more ostensibly male types what to do. And they do it.
And the fact that he continually refers to this one particular male flight attendant as "It (and always capitalized, oh god)?" I can't. I will also say that I haven't made ti all the way through, so maybe I'm judging too harshly and the "character" whose POV we see this from actually gets bashed with a unicorn tiara to death, but...yeah.
ETA: Eoin "explains:"
Em, 'theharshknight', it is a story, a tongue in cheek satire, you should read David Sedaris..... There is an eminent problem is writing sometimes because people take things as literal. I have many gay oriented friends, and it is not even about that, it is a small commentary on a certain aspect of life and the character of 'I' is a creation, not a reality.
So...he's just a shit writer (like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wldcatsprstr_14 said) who has no foresight into audience reception?
ETA2: He deleted. I don't want to repost it here, but an anon on mm copy-pasted the whole thing here. I do warn for homophobia, if you choose to read.
What did I do on the evening of Jan 3, you ask? Argued with Eoin Macken online. SMH
I'm not sure if he's trying to be edgy (at your age, Eoin? really?) or what, but this?
This face belongs to that social anomaly, the gay air hostess. The gay air hostess is another beast entirely separate from real life, it's emasculated, yet bizarrely has a position of power in that this creature, clearly wishing it was a female getting a good ride from behind, can tell bigger more ostensibly male types what to do. And they do it.
And the fact that he continually refers to this one particular male flight attendant as "It (and always capitalized, oh god)?" I can't. I will also say that I haven't made ti all the way through, so maybe I'm judging too harshly and the "character" whose POV we see this from actually gets bashed with a unicorn tiara to death, but...yeah.
ETA: Eoin "explains:"
Em, 'theharshknight', it is a story, a tongue in cheek satire, you should read David Sedaris..... There is an eminent problem is writing sometimes because people take things as literal. I have many gay oriented friends, and it is not even about that, it is a small commentary on a certain aspect of life and the character of 'I' is a creation, not a reality.
So...he's just a shit writer (like
wldcatsprstr_14 said) who has no foresight into audience reception?What did I do on the evening of Jan 3, you ask? Argued with Eoin Macken online. SMH
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Date: 2012-01-04 06:43 pm (UTC)I don't think he learned a lesson, if anything, this has inflated his ego, because he reposted it with another disclaimer and someone did a very very bad Lit Analysis of his "story" - which honestly...we could've all done, if he'd framed it differently and didn't act like a complete asshole on twitter.