Some other possibilities:

Yup, the actual quote that has been misattributed to her on the stamp sounds deep till you realise it basically says “tweet all the time, even if you have nothing to say”.

Still going with my initial reading then if you aren't going to refute it. You thought the book was better than decent, then you found out it was by a "monster" and downgraded your opinion as far as your cognitive dissonance would allow.

You could just say your opinion of it has always been "decent" and nothing more. You haven't said that yet, though.

I read between the lines. "Decent" looks mighty suspicious in light of "I can't support him". I bet you used a positive word stronger than "decent" before finding out about his politics.

"I accidentally liked his book but then I found out he was a bad man so I realised it was bad". You people are pathetic.

It's not sci-fi.

117 upvotes and then a stack of comments, each listing tonnes of female Sci Fi authors, all those commenters in the grey. This place is hilarious. Such an echo chamber.

Yeah! Just like they did with.....?

Or.... by people who saw the shortlist and voted on what they liked.

Yeah, no males like Bayonetta other than you, right?

Um, no. Those are structural support beams. WTH man!

Tofu. The only known food that actually removes flavour from the surrounding ingredients. I think the flavour is sucked into another plane of reality, leaving nothing but blandness in it’s wake.

Checks out. Film looks delicious.

Sub contracted to an inferior chef I bet. That’s usually what it comes down to with these ambitious architectural projects.

Wouldn’t they be African Asians at that point?

You just used both versions yourself, so by your own token, you are being malicious.

Saying “blackface is always bad, fuck context” is oversimplifying in itself. Disregarding different cultural conditions is also an oversimplification.

Sounds like you must’ve too!

That’s demonstrably untrue. Black people call other black people it and it’s fine then.