This was linked in one of the discussion threads of a post that I can't remember how I got to--metafandom, maybe? Anyway, it's author Chimamanda Adichie on "The Danger Of A Single Story." Y'all should go listen.

[Disclaimer: I'm thinking out loud, here. Feel free to pick holes in my theory ( Read more... )

Poking my head up to post a link, because I know some people on my friendslist are no longer reading Scalzi's blog and yet might be interested in this post. Although it's on Whatever, it's by Mary Anne Mohanraj, and I thought it was very interesting. She's talking about racism in this post, and she's supposed to have a follow-up tomorrow on ( Read more... )

I was thinking about my (three little) Supernatural stories this evening, and how in each one, the antagonist was female (Lilith from mythology, a succubus, and a female ghost, respectively). I don't generally consider myself a woman-hating sexist pig, so making my "bad guys" female is A) proof I'm wrong or B) coming from somewhere else in my ( Read more... )

My thoughts on LJ's latest policies re: adult content ( Read more... )

I've been reading around about the whole journal deletion thing I asked about earlier. Two conclusions come to mind:( One of these is going to be unpopular. You guess which one. )

You want to know my personal association with the word "miscegenation"? I'm going to tell you anyway. I'd run across the word before and knew the definition, including the ugly connotation. But what I think of every time I see it is a scene in "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou" where a rich, white, Klan-leading political candidate sees a black man ( Read more... )

Hmm. If there's a certain action that's considered wrong because it's demeaning to women, but a woman chooses to do it because she wants to, should she be censured? Is she giving into the patriarchy or bucking it?

I just bought a digital camera. gweneiriol, if you were wondering what that gift certificate went to, now you know. It was a hard decision between that and an mp3 player, but I think I'd use the camera more ( Read more... )

Found via minisoo and well worth reading: I Remember Townsend (VJ Day and 9-11).