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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like you're sort of (and even the slate piece) is missing the point.

The author of cat people said it was 100% fiction.  The slate writer figured out it was about her and confirmed with thee cat people author that those were her details, it had been based on her.  Charles admitted to another friend he was upset that the cat people author 'dragged" slate author "into it."

So, it seems like the people in the story were slate and Charles, but the truly bad experiences were Cat people and Charles.  Cat people fictionalized her bad experience with Charles by subbing in slate author's bio details.  [/quote]

So much nonsense drama.[/quote]

But it isn't nonsense. If someone wrote a "fictionalize" version of an incident in your life, and provided identifying details, then added other, derogatory details that were not true, that is not right. Cat People author should not have included identifying details. [/quote]

+1  Roupenian, clearly, lacks a moral compass.  [/quote]

I don't know about that. She's a writer - and was a young writer when she wrote this piece. I don't know if you know any writers - I am one - and especially at that early time in your life, before you've been published and your main thing is just to get GOOD and hopefully have someone take notice, you're not really thinking about how this will affect anyone who you've pilfered from. You're drawing on real life and then twisting it into fiction - that's how it works. I am not saying that what she did was good - and I think the Slate writer has every right in the world to be upset, and to tell her side of the story. I just also think, this is what writers do. It sucks, it's normal. I guess you could say no writers have a moral compass.[/quote]

It’s not hard to change a few identifying details. In fact, that’s what most writers do. [/quote]

She changed a lot. She just also left a lot in. I'm sure at some point she thought about asking her editor if they could make some changes, then worried that if she asked for too much - or revealed too much about knowing who the story was actually based on - she'd end up not getting published. But she probably also felt like those details mattered to the authenticity of the story. And look how much it resonated - and is still sparking discussion and debate.[/quote]

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