The point is, it's not a rational response -- it's an attempt to rationalize a response. It's not going to come out well no matter how it's presented. Some of us are used to a high level of snark; some of us are not. I think the entire #queryfail thing was going to produce a reaction like this one, and there are probably a lot of people who don't blog and don't post who are sitting back and feeling... well, similar.
And the point is: everyone does say the midlist is dying. Of course, everyone's been saying that since 1990, but watching the change since the '80s, I would say that it is definitely harder, now.
She's grabbing at comments & facts that do exist; she's putting them together in a way that seems inaccurate to me -- but that's almost beside the point. She is deeply, bitterly unhappy, and many deeply, bitterly unhappy people do not come off well in public forums.
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Date: 2009-04-22 03:21 am (UTC)And the point is: everyone does say the midlist is dying. Of course, everyone's been saying that since 1990, but watching the change since the '80s, I would say that it is definitely harder, now.
She's grabbing at comments & facts that do exist; she's putting them together in a way that seems inaccurate to me -- but that's almost beside the point. She is deeply, bitterly unhappy, and many deeply, bitterly unhappy people do not come off well in public forums.