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As many of you have no doubt read, The city of Birmingham is dropping apostrophes from street signs.

I was horrified until I read

mad_maudlin's (our mad linguist) light and funny post about the history of using the possessive apostrophe and why it's NOT A SIGN OF THE APOCALYPSE.

Many, "huh, really?" moments. Also, I'm rather embarrassed for the English language. Our underwear is showing.

Current Mood: impressed
Current Music: The Lively Ones - Surf Rider

Thank you,

xanphibian.

For the record, I too am an incest survivor and I write about incest.

heatherly's post... I have no words. Fortunately,

xanphibian does.

Xanphibian sums up a lot of what I feel.

Yes.

heatherly misses the point entirely. Yes. Many incest and rape survivors aren't just "okay" with these stories -- they actively seek them out. But to understand that, I think you should read

xanphibian's post.

For the record, I'm bothered by

heatherly's opportunistic fear-mongering about "outsiders" on the heels of the latest scares. There's potential for a fandom backlash against writers of incest, non-con, and chan. If that happens, no one's going to care if it's a good story or a bad story, or if it's "realistic" or not. We'll just be targeted based on the warnings.

If that happens, I'd do the same thing we did in LJ. I'd take all the warnings off my stories.

Lastly... "writing responsibly"? What the heck is that even supposed to mean?