I've been watching this, too. I work with (and am friends with) someone at the bookstore, who may or may not have been the first one to say "you know, I don't think F&SF like stories that have girl-cooties", but she was definitely one of the forerunners, and I can safely say that some of the responses are giving the whole thing way more gravity than it merits. I know many of the people in her writing group contribute to the April 1 Strange Horizons slushbombing, she was one of the instigators of the "let's bomb the Toronto Arts Council grant committe with genre stories this year and see if they'll give a grant to a story with genre cooties" campaign, and this strikes me as just more fun along those lines.
I like it because, while I'll usually send things to F&SF (though lately I've started saving myself the postage), it gives me a reason to actually finish something new. Although my lesbian love muffin story is definitely rife with girl-cooties.
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Date: 2006-06-15 11:21 pm (UTC)I like it because, while I'll usually send things to F&SF (though lately I've started saving myself the postage), it gives me a reason to actually finish something new. Although my lesbian love muffin story is definitely rife with girl-cooties.