Someone on my friend's list wondered about the lesson that con staff would glean from the Readercon blow-out (more specifically, being concerned that concoms will just give up on dealing with harassment because people are hard and anger is scary (both of these statements are true, BTW)).

I present to you the lesson Readercon has learned and what ( Read more... )

I've read these before, and have had cause to link to them but couldn't find them again, so I'm putting them here so I can (trigger warning: sexual assault, no graphic descriptions):

Mythcommunication: It’s Not That They Don’t Understand, They Just Don’t Like The Answer

Meet the Predators

Whenever fail like the Readercon debacle occurs, there are always posts and links that speak well beyond that particular fail. Here are the ones I've seen from this round (updated as more are found ( Read more... )

(from Cause I'm Nerdcore Like That; he uses "nerd" where I'd use "geek", but I assure you, it's not enough of a cultural difference for these problems to not exist in my social circles ( Read more... )

( trigger warning, NSFW )

In case it wasn't obvious from my previous post, Fugitivus is back. Based on the twitter feed she was gone just shy of a month. My apologies for not mentioning it sooner.

So I woke up this morning (er, shortly after noon) to find that Fugitivus, the blog of the now infamous "Fuck You, Google" post about privacy concerns with Google Buzz (and the follow-up post "Screw You, Google"), is now a protected blog that I can't read with my Wordpress account (meaning the protection is not being used as a host-deny list but ( Read more... )

There's been an update to the "not like this" link in my post about Google Buzz. She's downgraded her "Fuck" to "Screw", to indicate that they hadn't quite fucked up as hard as it looked.

I just want to point out this line from the project manager of Buzz: We’re sorry that the product experience was extremely confusing. . . Confusing? CONFUSING ( Read more... )

(as seen hereSexual Assault Prevention Tips Guaranteed to Work ( Read more... )

Item the first:
Dear fantasy writers,
It's really nice that you've finally gotten around to having female protagonists who go on Hero's Journeys. But would it kill you to not have them nearly or actually raped repeatedly at the beginning of their journey? If you want to show the father and/or some other evil character(s) kicking the dog, have ( Read more... )