It annoys me that the discussion about -isms and policing and dogpiling on LJ always gets boiled down to two perspectives: "rich white uni girls competing over who can be the most liberal" vs. "-ist ignorant assholes who care more about their squee being harshed than injustice in the world." I do think there is a space in the middle, and I think ( Read more... )

So today I was writing my Classical Sociological Theory exam and I got to the part where I was writing about identity, individuality, solidarity and the division of labour. I got to thinking about fandom for some reason and I was wondering whether or not I'm correct in assuming that fandom tends to have a certain hostility towards individualism (" ( Read more... )

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SO. Someone added an alert to one of my stories on FF.N. As is habit, I went and checked out this person's profile. The profile is a lengthy list of specifications with awkwardly constructed sentences, and then this little gem:

( Indignant hypocrisy: After leaving a constructive crit review, I was accused of bashing a story. )

A while back, someone posted a picture of Frida Kahlo to badeyebrows. This was eventually crossposted to Stupid Free, and many people were outraged that someone would ask the community to be accessory to mocking a great artist ( Read more... )

"Fail" is not an argument ( Read more... )

Since I am clearly an expert in internetology, I have come to provide you all with another valuable nugget of knowledge about word usage and the internet (which is, as we all know, serious business).

A Troll, ladies and gentlemen, is not merely someone with an unpopular and/or stupid opinion. For example, Fred Phelps of godhatesfags.com is not a ( Read more... )

Know what I neither "get" nor like ( Read more... )