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Wikipedia says there are "approximately 2000" active members in the SFWA. All of which pay $100 yearly dues. 2000 x 100 = $200,000 a year. Of those 2,000 members, Rick has a grievance. The small handful of other members we go after fall into one of two categories:
A. Convinced pedophiles and the people that excuse them
B. Members that show up on Rick's twitter timeline to insult us
A bunch of people who fall into (B) get briefly made fun of but otherwise forgotten a few days later. James Buckley and his rockjaw wife, Tobias Buckell and his collection of kangol hats, etc. Our shenanigans really only affect four members, all white, in what I'd describe as three tiers:
A-Tier: Rick. Yeah, we shit on him pretty much every day.
B-Tier: Uncle Paul. Sensitive crybaby with questionable beliefs on the appropriateness of bathing other people's children.
C-Tier: Cat Rambo and Mary-Robinette Kowal.
It's those last two names that really make all the difference, because they have considerable influence amongst the higher-ups in the SFWA, as well as elitist attitudes towards disrespect. You do NOT call her Mary, you WILL call her Mary-Robinette. Both felt extremely offended by getting teased on the internet, and used their sway to approve Rick's lawsuit because they had a personal interest in getting "revenge" on us.
To recap, every single member of the SFWA paid approximately $50 to sue a bunch of anonymous stlakers who upset 0.2% of the SFWA userbase. Even then, can you really consider Rick part of that 0.2% when his grubby hands are outstretched asking for a handout? Every member paying ~$50, half their yearly dues, because 0.15% of the SFWA got butthurt, and coincidentally two of those three members happen to be former Presidents of the SFWA.
Is Jon Del Arroz still lurking somewhere? I'd love for the 1,996 members to find out what Cat & Mary-Robinette decided to do with their money.
A. Convinced pedophiles and the people that excuse them
B. Members that show up on Rick's twitter timeline to insult us
A bunch of people who fall into (B) get briefly made fun of but otherwise forgotten a few days later. James Buckley and his rockjaw wife, Tobias Buckell and his collection of kangol hats, etc. Our shenanigans really only affect four members, all white, in what I'd describe as three tiers:
A-Tier: Rick. Yeah, we shit on him pretty much every day.
B-Tier: Uncle Paul. Sensitive crybaby with questionable beliefs on the appropriateness of bathing other people's children.
C-Tier: Cat Rambo and Mary-Robinette Kowal.
It's those last two names that really make all the difference, because they have considerable influence amongst the higher-ups in the SFWA, as well as elitist attitudes towards disrespect. You do NOT call her Mary, you WILL call her Mary-Robinette. Both felt extremely offended by getting teased on the internet, and used their sway to approve Rick's lawsuit because they had a personal interest in getting "revenge" on us.
To recap, every single member of the SFWA paid approximately $50 to sue a bunch of anonymous stlakers who upset 0.2% of the SFWA userbase. Even then, can you really consider Rick part of that 0.2% when his grubby hands are outstretched asking for a handout? Every member paying ~$50, half their yearly dues, because 0.15% of the SFWA got butthurt, and coincidentally two of those three members happen to be former Presidents of the SFWA.
Is Jon Del Arroz still lurking somewhere? I'd love for the 1,996 members to find out what Cat & Mary-Robinette decided to do with their money.
