Tao ~ I just wanted to say that I'm genuinely happy to see you back on this forum. You're happy cat avatar always makes me smile. (It reminds me of my baby, Aslan.)
For the record, even I'm not opposed to William publishing at this point. I think I made my point and I got the issue out there. As I told another poster back in
December 2011:
MsJack wrote:. . . I'm aware that William has been thundering that his work will be published after all. As I see it, that leaves four possibilities: (1) the MI has changed its mind; (2) William has found another outlet for publication; (3) William will be self-publishing or publishing through another venue that lacks a peer review process, or (4) William is just making stuff up and dangling carrots for his sycophants. And the truth is, I'm pretty indifferent to whichever it is.
The purpose of my thread was never to bar William from publication forever. I had no idea it would even have the effect of temporarily halting his publication(s)---assuming that's what has happened---and was quite shocked when that news reached my inbox. My primary objectives were to end his ugly treatment of women and to force the LDS apologetics community to confront the issue. I'm satisfied that both of these objectives were achieved. While I do not believe that William has had a change of heart and repented and come to understand why it's wrong to treat women the way he did, I do believe that he understands that behaving that way can get in the way of his other goals (even if he'll never admit this). That may be enough of a leash. Only time will tell.
In the weeks after I posted my thread, I received an outpouring of private "thank yous" from people involved with or interested in LDS apologetics who were concerned about William, but hesitant to speak out against a fellow apologist. Especially someone like William who was pretty much demonizing anyone who tried to express concern to him and accusing them of backstabbing, treachery, apostasy, etc. But I know for sure now that there are people in the apologetics community who care about things like this and will take action if necessary.
I've done my best to avoid these "zomg wut is Will doing next??" threads for the past seven months, and that's because I don't much care what William is doing next. There is no encore to my misogyny thread in the works, and unless William reverts back to his former behavior in force, there never will be. I made my point and I've moved on. If William's work can pass a peer review process, then he's as welcome in Mormon studies as anyone. If it can't, then his work will never have much traction anyways.
I personally think that William cannot get his feral behavior under control and that he will prove an embarrassment to anyone who chooses to associate with him for reasons that go far beyond misogyny. But anyone who can't see that in his online behavior by this point is probably never going to see it.
I'm not disappointed that a university that aspires to model Christian teachings said "no" to publishing William on account of his behavior. That makes me proud of my
alma mater. But at this point, even I say: let him publish. There are plenty of outlets out there that won't care about his online behavior, so if his work is really as quality as he says it is, I don't understand what the hold-up has been.