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"Well, if you don't like it, feel free to make your own movie/book/comic" is a common defense that we artistic types use to deflect criticism. I try to shy away from it myself, because I recognize that critics might have valid points about my work without necessarily possessing the talent or the resources or the time to make their own fiction in retaliation.

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(Thursday evening, INT: Overdrive Computers, back room)

GU: Well, whatever language they're actually speaking in Florenovia, I'm assuming gendered pronouns don't exist... and, if any vestige of the Romance languages still exist, they probably don't have the whole masculine/feminine noun thing any more.
GU: And, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis... which, I suppose, wouldn't be called that... it would have to affect the way they perceive the world. You really should have done a story about that, I think.
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EB: I seem to recall a few stories in which characters used masculine terms and male anatomy as insults and swear words.
MH (butt in LH's face): Well, that's just rude.
LH: What would you expect?
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MH: What would I expect? I'd expect the exact opposite. I'd expect Jesus and Mohammed and Newton and Einstein and Roosevelt and David Bowie to all have shrines and trading cards passed around. I'd expect "penis" to be a compliment, not an insult. I'd expect all remaining weiner jpegs to be holy goddamn relics, preserved and backed up on a thousand servers on a hundred planets to withstand a supernova.
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LH: Well, when you wri-
GU: Lily!
LH: When you write your own sci-
EB: Lily!
LH: WHEN YOU WRITE YOUR OWN SCI FI,
MH: MAYBE I WILL.
EB: Oh, balls.