So in your head, anyone who writes a story about slavery that includes the viewpoint of the slaver is “creepy”?

DAMN YOU ENGLISH!!! I thought the title said “Former Doctor Who” and I was wondering if it were Pertwee or Davison.

Hell, David Weber’s website is copyrighted 2009 and looks like an Geocities site.

I have never seen an author release a book under a pen name that wasn’t marketed as “Author X writing as Y!!!”. I don’t know why they bother with the pen names.

Weird, I always took Xanth and the situations in it to be fantasy exaggeration of society.

Oh! DO please give us a list of who can or can’t write which stories and why. Otherwise how will the world go on??

Ummm, you do know that having a character voice something that is integral to the character isn’t the same as the author themselves indorsing an idea?

So you’re saying what, you’d be okay if he molested a boy? Such a wierd thought process in your head. “Well, at least it wasn’t a girl!”

The main character in Under a Velvet Cloak was in 500 AD. What exactly do you expect to happen to a young girl (13 was a perfectly marriageable age then) with no family support back then? Becoming a courtesan was probably one of the happier possible outcomes, at least it comes with some independence and…

Also if this main story was about a 15 year old girl getting shelter in the house of a creepy uncle type, it may not have been so jolly and uplifting and harmless.

If George R.R. Martin had written it, you’d say it was gritty realism for the time period the story was describing.

Sooo.. George R.R. Martin writes some books filled with rape, murder, underaged sex and he gets a TV series.. Piers writes a few and he’s the “creepy uncle”.

The bill also has language that handcuffs the state government’s ability to “substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion even if the burden results from a law, rule, regulation, ordinance or resolution of general applicability.”

I understand your argument, but change “having sex for money” with “cleaning toilets for money” and does that make you feel different? Because people do a lot of grungy jobs just to live and nobody gives a damn until somebody’s getting a BJ.

Funny.. there are like, almost no comments in this thread putting down the woman who left this guy for having a small penis. Guess what, women aren’t the only people with body shame issues. If this guy had left his girlfriend for having tiny boobs or being too fat everyone here would be raking him over the coals.

I will never hear the words “Happy International Women’s Day” without my brain going straight to Deadpool ever again.

One, corporations pay higher taxes in other countries and seem to manage just fine. Also, corporations will cut their workforce regardless of what the government does, so why let that stop us from making important social changes?

Are these so-called “christians” so insecure in their faith that allowing anyone else any level of freedom or rights will somehow prevent them from practicing their religion? Is their invisible man in the sky so jealous and terrible that there is no room for anyone except the one faith?

I was thinking that with that skirt and being on a pedestal, there’s probably a billion upskirt shots on the WW statue by now.

Remember, it’s Texas, they’re probably trying to destroy the public colleges so their rich private college buddies can make more money so they are doing all this intentionally.