Comments on: Communique from the Continent of Stupidea

By: David Langford

David Langford — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:30:29 +0000

It’s always a bit irritating to find one’s links have been deliberately broken: I’ve since amended the Ansible link to the Awesome Pervertarianness to indicate that Gary Farber quotes most of our man’s timeless words.

http://amygdalagf.blogspot.com/2009/08/yowser.html

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By: Arachne Jericho

Arachne Jericho — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:54:40 +0000

It is speculated that most likely he deleted the original post because it got linked in his Wikipedia page.

Although right now there’s no longer a direct link to individual entries, but simply to his entire blog, which the Wikipedia Gods said was enough (and they are indeed right in this case).

By: Caitlín R. Kiernan

Caitlín R. Kiernan — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:12:30 +0000

Though we can only ponder his motivations, Mr. Wright appears to have deleted the entry that has angered and boggled so many minds. I shall not interpret this as a retraction, but, perhaps, as a cowardly retreat.

By: steve davidson

steve davidson — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:21:41 +0000

Given today’s insanity, I’m modifying my evaluation. This is not the rantings of a homophobe.

Wright (for some reason) bought into the evangelical (bs) world view and is now shocked, dismayed, upset and a bit put out that white, male evangelical christians are not immediately given patriarch status.

I wonder – does his wife walk six paces behind him – oh wait, that’s oriental…

By: Bev

Bev — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:57:05 +0000

Wright sounds like a raving lunatic! His response to negative comments is typical: he’s packing up his toys and going home because no one will “play fair” with him. Although I see he’s kept the comments open only to his friends. I guess he’ll have to lick his wounds and commiserate with the equally benighted.

By: PhilRM

PhilRM — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:09:51 +0000

News flash for Wright: the opposite of “Homophobe” is not “Pervertarian”, it’s “normal, sane human”.

By: TK Downtown

TK Downtown — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:39:29 +0000

I’m not against reading fiction writers who are narcissistic, intolerant, or mad. I’ve read a couple of Wright’s novels and found them a mixed bag. I’ve also followed his blog for a couple of years for its rubbernecking value. It’s not a typical writer’s blog; it’s mostly a record of Wright’s certitudes and correctitudes, often framed as logical proofs complete with Latin phrases — and a whole lot of bile. Wright often describes himself as a philosopher and a gentleman; but I see someone who is lacking in sanity and humanity to a poignant degree. And it’s not just the gay issue that torments him; he has a long list of grievances — from wetbacks, to treehuggers, to hedonists, to the war against Christmas, to that vile pigmy Harlan Ellison who once dissed him, to people who want to take away his guns, to men who don’t stand when a lady enters the room… He’s also full of arcane wisdom such as “Few people realize that horses were put on earth to carry men into battle.” In my estimation, Wright’s daily demonstration of how he is exclusively right about everything, functions to help him keep his psyche freshly cleansed of any creeping ambiguity or compunction. He is where he wants to be, and will pray for all you evil, stupid naysayers.

By: Hannu Blommila

Hannu Blommila — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:10:39 +0000

And to think I own three books by John C. Wright…The embarrassment. The shame…

What a truly sad, sad person he is. Someone buy him a Capybara. Maybe it helps..