Wednesday Gallimaufry
If you haven't been following the 10 Doctors cartoon, the most recent installment is an excellent recap of the story. Links will then take you to the archive (Look for "Dr. Who" on the right) if you want to go to the archive and start at the beginning.
Besides, that's far more fun than seeing that the misogyny of fandom never changes. (starcat_jewel has an unrelated - and yet related - article on male privilege in fandom.)
ETA: Ye gods, is anyone else noticing that many of the arguments about "Who isn't racist" are being repolished and repackaged as "it isn't sexist to keep the women in their place"?
Slactivist sums up what I'd have to say about Huckabee and his sudden announcement to create the King James Version of the Constitution much better than I can in his essay on Martin Luther King Jr. and Huckabee: So, OK then, here's one Baptist minister who sets out to change America, leads a march on the nation's capital, and succeeds in changing the law of the land. And here's another Baptist minister who has set out to change America and to rewrite the laws of the land. So what's the difference? Why do I admire and honor the former while mocking the latter as a theocratic goof? Is it just because one was a liberal and the other a conservative?
Actually, the difference between the two cases is huge. One could almost say these two cases are opposites. King offered secular arguments in sectarian language. Huckabee is offering sectarian arguments in (mostly) secular language.
Via starcat_jewel, a sweet vid collage of fannish/rennie weddings to the song "Geek Like Me."
So far, shifting all those comms to links has done what I needed to cut down on my f-list. Now to see if that's going to be enough when the Torchwood tsunami hits LJ tonight! (Especially since I'll be spending some of that time at the sit-and-knit at Tangled Skein.)
Besides, that's far more fun than seeing that the misogyny of fandom never changes. (starcat_jewel has an unrelated - and yet related - article on male privilege in fandom.)
ETA: Ye gods, is anyone else noticing that many of the arguments about "Who isn't racist" are being repolished and repackaged as "it isn't sexist to keep the women in their place"?
Slactivist sums up what I'd have to say about Huckabee and his sudden announcement to create the King James Version of the Constitution much better than I can in his essay on Martin Luther King Jr. and Huckabee: So, OK then, here's one Baptist minister who sets out to change America, leads a march on the nation's capital, and succeeds in changing the law of the land. And here's another Baptist minister who has set out to change America and to rewrite the laws of the land. So what's the difference? Why do I admire and honor the former while mocking the latter as a theocratic goof? Is it just because one was a liberal and the other a conservative?
Actually, the difference between the two cases is huge. One could almost say these two cases are opposites. King offered secular arguments in sectarian language. Huckabee is offering sectarian arguments in (mostly) secular language.
Via starcat_jewel, a sweet vid collage of fannish/rennie weddings to the song "Geek Like Me."
So far, shifting all those comms to links has done what I needed to cut down on my f-list. Now to see if that's going to be enough when the Torchwood tsunami hits LJ tonight! (Especially since I'll be spending some of that time at the sit-and-knit at Tangled Skein.)