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[moominmuppet]

Finishing up clearing out email now that I'm home:

Canon and Sheep Shit: Why We Fight.
I hate the Doctor Who canon like Dawkins hates God.

Like him, I'm convinced the target of my animus doesn't exist, but that doesn't stop me spending half my life writing about how dreadful it is. (from marnanel)

Road Kill: It's Fresh, It's Organic, It's Free --

Comments

[heron61]

most often find the art issue a problem in movies and older books. I have a lot of trouble enjoying old movies because I can't stop noticing the gender and race politics to the exclusion of actually just enjoying the plot, for example.

I tend to excuse work from the early 1960s and earlier unless it is impressively horrid, because I largely assume that the US and Western Europe were deeply scary and exceptionally bigoted places prior to the social changes of the 1960s.

I see a lot of overlap between the lesbian/bi/straight poly worlds, with gay open relationships generally being conceptualized very differently. And I don't think that's just because of my own relationship dynamics (my most long-standing poly relationship being with K and T, who are living within a pretty poly and poly-friendly lesbian subculture). I also see it in who posts to the LJ poly communities. I can recall a lot of posts by poly lesbians, but almost none by poly-identified gay men.

That makes sense to me - at least in the poly communities that I hang out in (the Portland and DC area otherkin communities, where poly is essentially the norm, and at least 40% of people are bi), there are slightly more women than men and there's a mild undercurrent that even men in the community are sexually threatening unless proven otherwise, so it makes sense that such a place would be more welcoming of lesbians than gay men. However, it's equally true that I know only two lesbians in these communities, neither of them have any major connections to their local lesbian community. Of course, I also know no gay men in either community, so there's clearly some bias.