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[quote=Anonymous][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]
+1 FFS, people do that when they post on DCUM.[/quote]

The fact you see posting on DCUM as equivalent to being a young fiction writer who is getting published in the New Yorker says a lot! Again, I am not saying what the writer did was great - just, that it is very NORMAL to be that much of a jerk if you're a writer. Or that type of jerk. It's just most people don't end up with their jerky story in the New Yorker.[/quote]

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