tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post72500708998441822..comments2024-01-31T17:39:44.323+00:00Comments on margaret-cooter: Out of the blueMargaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-83271530971068916792014-11-28T10:46:26.997+00:002014-11-28T10:46:26.997+00:00I was thinking the other day about how hypersensit...I was thinking the other day about how hypersensitive some folks were becoming as a kneejerk reaction, leaping to mistaken conclusions in an ignorant as well as over-hasty way. When I mulled over your out-of-the-blue email, I wondered if for taxidermy the reader, nay glancer, had concluded vivisector, and her knee had jerked her fingers to explode the vitriol.<br />Like you, I worry most for the young and the vulnerable who are plagued by such rubbish.Olga Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-22487618412714551232014-11-27T00:28:26.479+00:002014-11-27T00:28:26.479+00:00Did she misunderstand that it was cloth and not ac...Did she misunderstand that it was cloth and not actual animals?<br />Strange. Or did I not read the same article? To me it is basically a different form of a cuddly toy.<br />SandySandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04978514536651961190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-10876823107643675632014-11-26T22:25:42.079+00:002014-11-26T22:25:42.079+00:00Wow. I'm sorry you got such a vitriolic respon...Wow. I'm sorry you got such a vitriolic response to your article. I suppose that I can understand someone being distressed by the art itself, but your writing about it seems careful and thoughtful -- hardly worthy of such an angry response. <br /><br />I'm reminded of an essay Shirley Jackson wrote about the avalanche of (mostly) angry mail she got after publishing her story "The Lottery" . . . and yet that is her best-known work. I suppose that when we put our work out into the world, we simply can't predict the audience's response, either in the short or long term. But it's hard to encounter such hostility and takes bravery to continue afterward. Deborah C. Stearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10293517108313679115noreply@blogger.com