Closing the loop

[deelaundry]

Since I brought Stephen Fry's recent remarks up before in a quite dramatic way, it's only right for me to share with you Stephen's comments on the entire thing:

Stephen Fry's blog post titled Silliness - click through to all four pages

A few preliminary conclusions from my first read-through of it:
- Jane will not want to be reading that, as it does contain quite a lot of words.
- Stephen Fry is very much an extrovert, on the introversion-extroversion temperament scale.
- Stephen was not misquoted in the article, although the headline writer who twisted his words into "women hate sex" was wrong.
- Stephen is not likely to understand why his actual words were harmful and sexist unless a good friend sits him down and explains it to him.
- He still reminds me of a lot of fandom stompers.

My feelings in summary: Stephen Fry said something stupid and wrong. He doesn't get why that thing is stupid and wrong. The world is not over. I will still enjoy Stephen Fry's works when I come across them, just like I don't turn off Ferris Bueller because Charlie Sheen destroyed a hotel room while doing coke.

I have friends with different opinions on the whole thing, and that's fine.

ETA, 10:40 pm US Eastern Time, Nov. 5: I am not likely to return to this post. If you comment and do not get a reply from me, that's why.

Comments

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

I definitely do not think he meant to denigrate women. Yet his words did -- by, just as you said, feeding into an entrenched belief that is harmful to women.