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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I doubt anyone here cares, but this really reminds me of the way canlit blew up over the Stephen Galloway allegations and Marg Atwood, the Queen of Canlit, inititally sided with him, along with a bunch of other Canlit heavyweights,  even though he was a creep and a bully to his students.

As an outsider, it was very frustrating watching the way people fawn over MA and face how her action hurt women.

But anyway.  I hope the same thing doesn't happen here, with the powerful desperately damping down any criticism to main their power (NYT, etc).  Good luck, guys. [/quote]

I remember that, and it definitely colored my perception of Margaret Atwood. She doesn't seem to have been impacted by it whatsoever though. I still remember her Tweet about the victim being indigenous, which looking back after the revelations this year about Canada and the residential schools is especially horrific.

Vox did a summary awhile back:

https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/1/17/16897404/margaret-atwood-metoo-backlash-steven-galloway-ubc-accountable
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Good, I'm glad it coloured your perception of her because [b]she has a history of being anti-Indigenous IRL[/b] which is carefully swept under the rug in Canada.   The guy also wasn't Indigenous and many, many Indigenous people were offended that she thought she could decide, as a white woman, who is and who isn't.  Gross.   And the fact none of this impacted her and she's still fawned over is an example of teh exact power dynamics at play that I'm talking about. [/quote]

I didn't know that was part of her history, and I also didn't know that he wasn't actually indigenous. That makes it even more awful and exploitative.

And you are right about the power dynamic. I don't think this is going to impact any of the major writers here. Ng, Gay, Kolker, Castellani, Almond, etc. They'll be fine. Larson might not, but she wasn't as powerful to begin with. I'm beginning to believe Larson is  something of a victim here too, in that she was egged on and given a pass by the established writers; this could have all been avoided with constructive feedback rather than her just being a tool for providing Ng etc. with vicious entertainment. [/quote]

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