Yea!
Putting the responsibility where it belongs WTFF???
I'm sorry, but we'll need to see your genitals And an "a-ha" moment about particular folks' reactions:
That does not mean what you think it means"... I finally grokked what was going on after some thought. It's something I've always understood on a subconscious level, but never really articulated before. It's something along the lines of: how dare I use these people's own words and attitudes against them? How dare I, in public, on well-read blogs and in the company of influential and intelligent people, repeat what they have said or written and expose it for the crap it really is? ..."
Here's
some really good links about some of the problems with that whole "colorblind" approach to racism Oh, and there's a new Disney netbook coming out - in
magical blue or
princess pink - that's a rebrand of the same box, at the same price, as the Asus Eee I've been looking at. ::Insert squee here::
And now... back to the daily schlog, and a vain attempt to make the middle of a construction zone ready for meetings tomorrow.