They ask the dumbest questions you can imagine, and they make assumptions about me you wouldn’t believe. They do not perceive that I am not a misogyn… - Harlan Ellison

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They ask the dumbest questions you can imagine, and they make assumptions about me you wouldn’t believe. They do not perceive that I am not a misogynist, that I am a misanthrope…I treat male and female with equal monstrousness in this work. They also seem blissfully unaware of history (well, duh) and what happens after a decimating war in which food, weapons, shelter and women become valuable chattel. Clearly, I am showing in these stories that it’s a brutal, amoral way of living; not a Good Thing. But the nitwits are products of the American Educational System, and looking beyond the surface of a work of fiction seems anathema to them since it requires ratiocination and cannot be abetted by binge-drinking.