Don't Call Me_______, Moron

After reading this piece on the offensiveness of Bookslut--the moniker itself more so than the blog (though the writer does have a problem with the lack of male nudity on the site, it seems)--I have to declare to the litblogging public at large that if I ever see a blog called Bookshorty, I'm going to write something similar.  I'll never forget that day when I was twelve, coming out of a Piggly Wiggly in central Alabama, holding my mother's hand as we crossed the parking lot singing "Don't It Make Your Brown Eyes Blue" when the town bully pulled up on his Huffy and called me shorty.  Mom sang louder but I heard the taunt and before I knew it I had missed a couple of notes and ruined the whole singalong.  I was short then; I'm short now.  I cringe when I hear the word shorty to this day.   

In fact, I'm even a little offended by the term short story.

So no Bookshorty.  You've been warned.

Update: I give Bookdwarf a pass. 

Comments

[miette]

Oh, but this sets up all sorts of possible confusion. Case in point: Is BookWillie utterly offensive, or a blog about Mr Loman? Or Shakespeare? Or Faulkner?

Same with BookJohnson. BookWhacker makes a nice pun, I suppose. Or what about the more abstruse BookLoveWhistle? It's not in the classically offensive vocabulary, and, you know, it's poetic. I might just start it up right now (er, in drag, unfort.)... just to set the universe back in orbit and give me something to do other than stroke you.