Damn. There goes the title of my next MONK book…

Both my characters are cops it could work…

(What can I say? It was an opening too perfect to pass up)

For the original question – I don’t find the title especially insulting or offensive, though I can see how others would. I didn’t go directly to it being a derogatory term for a gay man mostly because I am not a gay man and I don’t really know all of the terms that are offensive to them. Put me in the camp that thought the term ‘cocksucker’ was used for anyone who 1) sucked cocks and 2) was a real screw-up.

IMO it is not a good title for a book no matter how well it suits the story. Quite frankly, I would pass on the book because of the title. It is not a book title that I would read in public or risk having it around to be seen by my children. Too many explainations would have to be given and I don’t care to have to explain my reading choices to anyone.

Surely there could have been a title chosen that was less controversal which suited the book just as well.

When I posted the above:

just as whoever said…(Emmy, was it you? Oye, you’re being bad…but if it was you, chances are you know you’re being bad and doing it just because you can… behave already!!!)

What Andy said. And feel free to take Teddypig’s advice as well and go greet Carlin..in person, if you please.

Whoever said that, owns it. Just as whoever else said anything ugly and demeaning needs to own.

I deliberately kept my comment directed at Emmy light for a reason. Emmy and I have chatted via email enough for me to know that she deliberately says things like this. A big reaction is exactly what she looks for when she says such things.

I didn’t bother trying to track down where the Carlin comment came from-I’ve lost too much time getting caught up in blog dramas and I decided a while back that I wasn’t going to hunt more dramas down. So I don’t know where the comment came from, nor I do really care to.

Yes, I can easily believe Emmy said it to Ann. She enjoys provoking Ann. It was an ugly thing to say, she probably knows that, but I also suspect she doesn’t care if people think it was ugly or not.

When Emmy gets like that, I’ve learned either addressing it as I did or just ignoring her seems to work best.

I apologize to anybody who feels I was patting Emmy on the head, condoning her comment/behavior/etc. That wasn’t my intention.

I didn’t care for the comment, it was ugly, and there’s no denying that.

I think the title is tacky, but I bet it sells a lot to the people that like those kinds of books. It’s very sensational — look at how many comments are on this post. If it wasn’t M/M, I’d probably read the book after all this controversy. That’s why I read DaVinci Code and the Twilight series. Oodles of controversy, heh heh!