“What does grabbing your dick have to do with a tribute to those fallen on 9/11?”

Posted in Elloras Cavemen go wild at RT Sunday April 20, 2008

So asks author JC Wilder, during an interesting account of some of the stuff that’s been going on at The Romantic Times convention this year.

She writes:

And then there are the cover models…displaying very ungallant behavior. Well, let me rephrase that…some of them are lovely. Well mannered, courteous – exactly what one would expect in someone who hoped to portray one of our fabulous heroes.

I wonder who those models were? I’d have assumed that most male models would be up themselves regardless. Did I just say that out loud?

The others, a motley gaggle of strippers (K:I think she’s talking about the Elloras Cavemen here) and one triple X rated porn star – yes, a porn star – groping people and generally offending a great many attendees. Of course when a few of these gems stage a 9/11 tribute at the EC Party (it was during an SOS military salute – a cause that Kathryn Falk, the founder of RT, has thrown her voice and cash behind) came on stage in military regalia and proceeded to strip and grope themselves. What does grabbing your dick have to do with a tribute to those fallen on 9/11?

Is it wrong that I chuckled at the images that this evoked?

First off, dressing in a faux military outfit and stripping could be sexy and over the top – but during a TRIBUTE to the soldiers? A TRIBUTE to 9/11?

WTF???

Of course if that weren’t enough to turn the stomach – the X rated simulated sex on stage was enough to send people out in droves. A woman (can’t call her a lady!) was stretched out on the stage with a stripper simulating sex with his dick positioned over her mouth. It just so happened that while this was going on…her top came down.

Oh dear.

So I guess nothing’s changed from previous years then?

Oh, apparently she’s (JC Wilder) received rapped knuckles from other authors for objecting to having her arse groped, and publicising her disgust at the Cavemen paying tribute to the 9/11 soldiers by grabbing their crotches. Stellar.

26 Comments »

26 piped up to ““What does grabbing your dick have to do with a tribute to those fallen on 9/11?””

  1. AvatarDS
    Posted: Apr 20th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
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    It sounds to me like romance fans need to get out out more often.
  2. AvatarKaren Scott
    Posted: Apr 20th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
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    Author Comment

    It sounds to me like romance fans need to get out out more often.

    Way to go with tarring all romance fans with the same brush.

    If anybody grabbed my arse without prior consent, I’d smack them so hard their eyes would water.
  3. AvatarDS
    Posted: Apr 20th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
    3

    Whoops, knew I misstated that as soon as I hit the submit button. No editing function though.

    I meant the people at the convention who were acting out. Sorry that I got it wrong.
  4. AvatarKaren Scott
    Posted: Apr 20th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
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    Author Comment

    Hey DS, the editing function is on. I think you have to click on your own comment to edit.
  5. AvatarBonnie L.
    Posted: Apr 20th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
    5

    SB Sarah has some G-rated pictures of the God Bless America extravaganza up on SB. Interesting . . .
  6. AvatarMarissa
    Posted: Apr 20th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
    6

    Somehow this doesn’t surprise me. :-P

  7. Avatarkirsten saell
    Posted: Apr 20th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
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    Hey DS, the editing function is on. I think you have to click on your own comment to edit.

    I know that sometimes it takes more than a minute for the editable (is that a word?) version of one of my comments to load, so to some it might look like the function isn’t on…
  8. AvatarCapo
    Posted: Apr 20th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
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    Hm. My thought of the moment – if someone has to resort to Lycra maybe there’s a personal reason they get pissed at seeing another woman wearing see-through fabric? Can’t help but wonder.

    Anyway, I have to agree that a male model yanking his wad isn’t much of a tribute to men (or even gals) who have served their country.
  9. AvatarThrowmearope
    Posted: Apr 20th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
    9

    “What does grabbing your dick have to do with…”

    Ah, Karen, you may be a reader, but you have a way with words. And I don’t care if knuckles get rapped or wrapped or whatever.
  10. AvatarKaren Scott
    Posted: Apr 20th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
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    Ah, Karen, you may be a reader, but you have a way with words. And I don’t care if knuckles get rapped or wrapped or whatever.

    Why thanks, lol.
  11. Avatarveinglory
    Posted: Apr 20th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
    11

    I can’t get the edit function here to work. Maybe the edit conduct function at RT was in a similar state?
  12. AvatarCharlie
    Posted: Apr 21st, 2008 at 1:55 am
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    I’ve been reading about these rampaging EC Cavemen on several different blogs now. I can only imagine how much worse the lives of the Geico Cavemen are going to be as a result of the EC Cavemen’s behavior…
  13. AvatarPuppet Truth
    Posted: Apr 21st, 2008 at 2:05 am
    13

    A bit off topic…

    But I heard that RT allegedly fed the left overs from the Fairy Ball to the awards banquet attendees, and that the hotel was closer to condemned then to being “renovated”, and didn’t registrants have to pay MORE this year? Good gravy, whats next year going to bring?

    As for the EC cavemen, I was wondering when they would get inappropriate, or rather get caught for being so. It sounds like lawsuit material to me.
  14. AvatarKristie(J)
    Posted: Apr 21st, 2008 at 2:45 am
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    What I think is a shame, is she had to back tract on what I would consider boorish behaviour at best.
    I’m sure there were a lot of well behaved people there but it’s always the idiots who make it bad for everyone isn’t it?
  15. AvatarCapo
    Posted: Apr 21st, 2008 at 5:38 am
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    I can only imagine how much worse the lives of the Geico Cavemen are going to be as a result of the EC Cavemen’s behavior…

    LOL Charlie
  16. AvatarDecember Quinn/Stacia Kane
    Posted: Apr 21st, 2008 at 7:15 am
    16

    Does anyone know who the chick with the cherries in her cleavage was?

    Seriously. I’d really like to know.
  17. AvatarCarolan Ivey
    Posted: Apr 21st, 2008 at 4:18 pm
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    The chick with the cherries in her cleavage is a published author. K.C. something-or-other. I didn’t get close enough to read the rest of her name because, erm, frankly I didn’t care to get that close.

    And since no one else I observed came within 20 feet of her, there’s a good chance no one else learned her name, either. (Except for one woman who appeared to be her bodyguard.)

    Which sort of defeats the purpose of her attempt to draw attention to herself?

    With regard to the Cavemen – one of them came within a few inches of landing on my head as they leaped around the bar like a pack of untrained monkeys. However the Mr. Romance contestants I did meet were all mannerly. At least to me.

    And about the groping…let’s not forget that some of the women were just as guilty of groping the cover models. At one point one of them was apparently backed up into a corner of an elevator by a half dozen women who somehow seemed to think it was all right to stroke his muscles. If this had been an unwilling woman surrounded by six pawing men, everyone would be up in arms about it.
  18. AvatarDecember Quinn/Stacia Kane
    Posted: Apr 21st, 2008 at 4:49 pm
    18

    Thanks Carolan. :-)

  19. AvatarJody W.
    Posted: Apr 21st, 2008 at 5:05 pm
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    Did I see a vid of a RT-goer with something else in her cleavage…something a bit more pointy? There’s a vid floating around from the fairy ball, and I swear somebody has got something upright between her corsetted girlhumps. I think this is the vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMcvCMRP50A But it’s a long vid and I can’t remember where in the vid I may or may not have seen the waving implement of boobage.

    I really enjoyed the costume assortment.
  20. AvatarBailey
    Posted: Apr 21st, 2008 at 8:44 pm
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    If this had been an unwilling woman surrounded by six pawing men, everyone would be up in arms about it.

    Yes, I agree. By the same token if it’d been a female stripper on stage strumming her muffin in the name of Tribute I wouldn’t be surprised if the female audience had ripped her hair out!
  21. pingback pingback:
    Posted: Apr 21st, 2008 at 8:50 pm
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    Sharp Words » Blog Archive » WTF, Peoples?

    [...] the entire Romance world was living it up in fabulous Pittsburgh, PA. Then the blogging started. Reports of groping by greasy men, complaints about the complainer complaining about said groping, Mr. Romance contestants who are [...]
  22. AvatarCarolan Ivey
    Posted: Apr 21st, 2008 at 9:38 pm
    22

    Jody, the pointy object was a beer bottle. :)

  23. AvatarCarolan Ivey
    Posted: Apr 21st, 2008 at 9:40 pm
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    No, I take that back…the beer bottle bewbage was during the vampire ball…
  24. AvatarEve Vaughn
    Posted: Apr 21st, 2008 at 10:04 pm
    24

    I guess I always seem to miss out on all the drama (darn). Personally I didn’t see a lot of what is being reported, but again, I was too busy catching up with old friends rather than paying attention to what was happening on stage. I did see part of the 9/11 tribute where the models lip syched to God Bless the USA but there was no stripping. Right after that number I went outside to chit chat, so I missed most of the show. When I came back it was just ending and I did see some gyrating but I’m not sure if that was meant to be part of the tribute or not. My roommate told me about the simulated sex act which I’m glad I missed.

    My interaction with the models was pretty positive.I got to meet Adrian Paul, who is just as dreamy in person as he is on tv. *squee* Even a couple of the cover models were pretty nice, at least the ones I talked to. Rodney, an EC caveman is always a sweetheart, and I actually asked Christian, also a caveman, about his movies (because I’m noisy), and found out they were not the triple x variety but the soft core stuff you see on Skinemax at two in the morning.

    Most of the groping I saw throughout the week was done to the models rather than the other way around. I saw one woman jump into a model’s arms nearly toppling him over and other women randomly touching them. I’m not saying it didn’t happen, but I didn’t witness any of the models groping women without permission, hugging, yes, arms around them, yes, but no actually grabby grabby. But then again, just because I didn’t witness it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
  25. Avatarkatiebabs
    Posted: Apr 22nd, 2008 at 1:43 pm
    25

    I heard some interesting things about the fairy and vampire ball. Wonder what craziness happened there?
    Not gonna lie, wouldn’t mind watching the strippers.
  26. pingback pingback:
    Posted: Apr 22nd, 2008 at 7:10 pm
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    Out and About In Romanceland… : The Good, The Bad and The Unread

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