Things and Sundry.

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• We have surpassed the Kickstarter goal for Fight Like a Girl by a stunning $1,000!!!!!! I am in complete shock. Thank you to all of you. <3
• I have been invited to participate in a BBC panel on Adria Richards and sexism in geek culture tomorrow! I'm going to be debating a mens' rights activist!  I am a terrible debater so I will own that even under

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[anonymous]

being anon because I am a general lurker, but I deal with a lot of MRA types IRL and just wanted to say: beware of misdirection. They're not actually concerned with the topic you're discussing -- they're going to try to turn the conversation to the black hole of whether men face discrimination and whether it's as bad as what women face and whether this panel is a symbol of female oppression, so have answers prepared for that. They really don't have a leg to stand on -- they'll try to argue that since second-wave feminism women have been gradually becoming the oppressors (the logic behind this follows something along the lines of "what do you mean all ladies are not required to have sex with me? this is madness!") but just calmly assert the fact that having rights and being respected is not a zero-sum game. Nobody loses just because someone else gains. This is antithetical to their way of thinking but it presents a logic block that they generally can't figure out a way to get around or distract from.

Anyway. I have all the feels about these guys. I hope he runs out of that panel a sobbing newly reborn feminist.