“Petty” isn’t the right word

The malice and spite know no bounds. Ever.

Rachel Rooney alerted us.

Did what?? So I had to go searching.

https://twitter.com/alibelle/status/1496796254617145345

And here’s her work:

Just looks normal, right? But the actual list has four writers.

[Update] Annoyingly, the image crops off the fourth title so it still doesn’t show.

/Update

If trans activism were really “progressive” or enlightened or rights-based its adherents wouldn’t do things like this and then brag about having done them. Trans activism is a magnet for malevolent egomaniacal bullies.

Comments

13 responses to ““Petty” isn’t the right word”

  1. GW Avatar

    I don’t understand the narrative arc here. Does Alice S-H runs the Twitter account for the Phoenix Book Awards, and she, or he (I can’t tell from the thumbnail photograph), doctored the Tweet? Or what?

  2. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    Sorry. It took me some trouble to figure it out too. I think Alice S-H is a literary agent, with no other connection to the award than that. I think she tweeted about the award because literary agents are interested in such things…or ostensibly that was why, but really it was to make a show of erasing one of the nominees. She doctored the list. The Phoenix Book Awards has/have its own Twitter account.

  3. Holms Avatar

    “You’re unable to view this Tweet because this account owner limits who can view their Tweets.”

    She seems to have become shy.

  4. maddog1129 Avatar

    I couldn’t see the doctored image deleting the last author.

    I take issue with, “Am I petty enough …?”

    That’s not f*ing petty. That’s major, and outrageous.

  5. tigger_the_wing Avatar
    tigger_the_wing

    Neither ‘petty’ nor ‘procrastinating’ belong in that tweet.

    Whoever ‘Alice S-H’ might be, that tweet is a perfect illustration of the meme “I use long words I don’t understand in order to sound more photosynthesis”.

  6. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    Sorry about the image we now can’t see because she protected her account. It just looks like the original, but with the fourth writer, Onjali Rauf, missing.

  7. tigger_the_wing Avatar
    tigger_the_wing

    I can still see it above.

  8. tigger_the_wing Avatar
    tigger_the_wing

    Oops, my bad. That’s the accidental cropping I can see, not the deliberate one.

  9. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    Heh, it’s all confusing, sorry. Anyway the two look the same.

  10. John the Drunkard Avatar
    John the Drunkard

    And of course there’s no hint of how Onjali Rauf became unclean. The witch-sniffer’s work cannot be questioned.

  11. What a Maroon Avatar
    What a Maroon

    tigger@5,

    O villain! thou wilt be condemned into everlasting redemption for this.

  12. Jim Baerg Avatar

    “And of course there’s no hint of how Onjali Rauf became unclean”

    I don’t see anything in the Wikipedia article that hints at an answer.