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Joyce Carol Oates responds to 'dead' Jurassic Parkdinosaur
'No conservation laws in effect wherever this is?'
BY JESSICA GOODMAN • @JESSGOOD

Posted June 9 2015 — 5:37 PM EDT


Hold onto your butts: Joyce Carol Oates was seemingly outraged by a photo from Jurassic Park shared via Twitter on Tuesday.
First, IGN Movie Editor, Chris Tilly tweeted a photo (below) of director Steven Spielberg with one of the movie’s dinosaurs that appeared “dead,” with Tilly snarking, “this guy thinks it’s cool to kill defenseless animals and then take a selfie.”

Then the prolific author and Pulitzer nominee railed against the image:

Joyce Carol Oates


✔@JoyceCarolOates


So barbaric that this should still be allowed... No conservation laws in effect wherever this is? https://twitter.com/TillyTweets/status/608295717417959424 …

11:52 AM - 9 Jun 2015

Followers—and Tilly— were quick to point out that the photo was from a film and not actually of a deceased animal (it’s a mechanical Triceratops, to be exact).
Oates is not the first person to perhaps think that Spielberg was just a jerk taking a tasteless photo. The image caused a stir last year when Jay Branscomb posted it to Facebook as a joke with the caption, “Disgraceful photo of recreational hunter happily posing next to a Triceratops he just slaughtered. Please share so the world can name and shame this despicable man.” It went viral – but maybe not viral enough to reach Oates’ social network.

 

[squistion]

Darn, I thought this was a thread about the GOP.

 

[Rayderr]

Darn, I thought this was a thread about the GOP.

Clearly it's their anti-conservation stance that led to dinosaurs being hunted.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Odds that she was kidding?

 

[Mr. Ected]

Odds that she was kidding?

Of course now that she has come out looking stupid, she will state that she was just kidding! True or not.

 

[jon_mx]

Odds that she was kidding?

About the same as the odds of you posting a non-snarky comment.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Can't trust anybody with 3 names.

 

[EYLive]

That's not a selfie.