A few things make a post

[annathepiper]

Let’s lead this post off with a couple of general reminders:

First off, the giveaway for Valor of the Healer is still in progress and running until Friday! As of this writing I have only six entrants, so your chances are really, really good at a shot at one of the two free copies I’ll be handing out. Nobody’s cleared the bar to get in on the draw

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i am amused

[rmd]

from deep in a metafilter post about harassment at sf cons:I just want to point out that the proposed standard that accusations must be corroborated explicitly puts the conversion rate between accuser testimony and accused testimony at significantly less than one. Since this maps very cleanly onto a well-known and well-understood gender dynamic, it similarly defines (typically) female testimony as mattering less than (almost always) male testimony in the name of a supposedly detached, supposedly objective "presumption of innocence." (The rate TFB proposes above, for instance, is three females equaling one male

Re: i am amused

[annathepiper]

HA!