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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]High-profile writers savaging a less-successful and vulnerable writer reminded me of the Isabel Fall tragedy:

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22543858/isabel-fall-attack-helicopter

I'm never going to buy another book by Celeste Ng or Roxane Gay (or NK Jemisin for that matter). Or anything from Chip Cheek, not that he is anywhere near them as far as success (I'd never heard of him).

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Going with that there was this case too:

https://quillette.com/2018/08/18/the-forgotten-story-of-how-punching-up-harmed-the-science-fiction-fantasy-world/

I don't think they're the same--Isabel Fall did nothing wrong--but there is the question: is there a point where the literary community right be right to silence a voice? Or a point where bad behavior should have consequences? Dorland isn't even in the same league as an "annoying person."[/quote]

Having read everything and particularly the timelines involved, I don't think Dorland did anything wrong either. She wasn't the thirsty person the NYT made her out to be. She was being gaslit, and reacted like a normal person being gaslit would.

Essentially these are stories of a powerful small group destroying vulnerable people, and it is nauseating.[/quote]

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