It's a man's man's LJ

Oct 13, 2010 13:14

On the flight back from California, I read Claire Brialey's piece in the latest Banana Wings about feminism and (amongst other things) fandom. Claire was polite enough not to finger me as the unnamed fan who, in worrying about the lack of LOCs from women to his fanzine, attributed Claire's article about the same issue in an earlier Banana Wings to ( Read more... )

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kate_schaefer October 13 2010, 23:44:10 UTC
169 female, some number male, of 258 (there are a few whose genders I don't know, a few who are in trasition, and a rather depressing number who are dead. Maybe it's time to drop the LJs of the dead. They won't be reading my LJ any time soon.)

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randy_byers October 14 2010, 04:56:08 UTC
I'd argue for keeping the dead amongst your Friends. They're still part of the community, even if the connection is static now.

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kate_schaefer October 14 2010, 16:29:01 UTC
Yeah, that's the thing I think each time I intend to delete them, and I end up leaving them alone. Maybe this time I'll follow through.

I used to go look at Anita's LJ every once in a while, and then at Anita's Book of Days. The only way you can read the Book of Days now is by using the Wayback Machine, because Anita's domain has lapsed. Some kindly administrator has parked a YouTube video by Chris Pirillo paying tribute to Anita there in the midst of the spammy ads, having figured out (correctly) that someone looking for Anita's content might watch the video and therefore see some of the spammy ads for a few seconds more.

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kate_schaefer October 14 2010, 16:33:41 UTC
And I was just now reminded, as I was aobut to follow through, of the real reason I can't drop my dead friends: they are unable to reciprocate. There I'd be, refusing to read the journals of the dead, while they loyally go on reading my journal. I had managed to forget that until confronted with the little red and green arrows.

It's a damn good thing I'm mostly able to throw out the physical stuff of the dead.

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randy_byers October 14 2010, 16:57:05 UTC
I find all of this terribly fascinating and am reminded again of Tom Disch's poem (posted to his LJ) about the ghosts of past lives found on old internet sites.

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