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That's basically it--she used words that hurt people's feelings, so they're hitting back at her by...mainly using words also calculated to hurt people's feelings. Plus, as I'm about to explain to a chick on verdictlesslife's blog, it's not so much that she called fanficcers rapists explicitly as it is that everybody seems to be translating "stalker" or "creepy person sending sexy stories to my daughter" as (potential?) "rapist" in their heads. And then getting their knickers in a knot because Gabaldon's work contains, yes, quite the surfeit of rape itself, and could be triggery to people who read it (if they weren't already warned about it, I guess, by every fanficcer in existence. Which they now will be, until the next person spouts a piece of dumbness in blogville, and Gabaldon is regulated once more to the: "Famous, huh? So how come I've never heard of her?" pile).