Two things I wanted to link to - one fun, one not fun.

[beccatoria]

Hey guys - thanks to my flist, two things have been brought to my attention that I feel I ought to share. One is fun, the other is not fun.

The fun thing is that emmiere linked me to this piece of awesome:

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I love it for a couple of reasons. The music itself is not my favourite thing ever, though I like it. But I do really love her voice, it

Comments

This is wrong...

[tackdriver56]

What's wrong, as this ripples out, is that the accused is still be criticized by people who never even got to see the original post, to be able to make an informed decision about it. The author received, read, and tried to understand and respond to negative feedback. She was mobbed, for reasons she apparently did not understand

1/2

[beccatoria]

What's also wrong is privileging the few occasions when a member of a privileged group is attacked by members of a disprivileged group as more important and more wrong than the majority of instances where the reverse is true.

I'm not qualified to comment on the issues regarding race that you raise as I lack contextual information although my kneejerk reaction is that you're promoting racial stereotypes with little thought to social context when talking about "intimidating" black people and "polite" white people, so please do not take my lack of more granular information on the issues you raised as conceding your point; I can somewhat address the parallel gender issues you raise.

The vast, vast majority of rapes are perpetrated by men, against women. The vast, vast majority of those rapes are never prosecuted. However, the majority of rapes that are prosecuted result in convictions. While highly publicised (and yes, incredibly unfair to those on trial), the problem of unconvicted rapists, and the problem of rape against women

2/2

[beccatoria]

Do I feel bad for the person who wrote that story? Yes, I do. I feel awful for her. I sincerely doubt that she knew she was writing something so racist. I'm sorry she's ended up as a temporary five-minute-of-fame scapegoat for an issue that is far, far wider than her

Re: 2/2

[nicole_anell]

*in awe of your ability to respond to that comment in the least bit civil way*

I'm getting weary of the postmortem dogpile on that ridiculous fic, but wow. WOW.

[sabaceanbabe]

I'll have to watch that vid when I get home, but I wanted to tell you that, in regard to the current racefail discussion, you said what I wanted to say so much more clearly than I did in my post. *hug*

[beccatoria]

Hee! The vid finally gets some love! ;)

As to the racefail issues, firstly thank you for pointing it out to me and secondly, as I said above, I think your post was perfectly clear. *hug*

[emmiere]

Since you posted about two things in this post, I thought I'd come back and comment about the less ragey one too (we can pretend I haven't already done that once...or twice), because OMG, DANCING! I don't even know what to call it either, but it's seriously amazing and kind of beautiful to watch. Her stuff being kind of hybrid of many fantastic things is one of my favorite things about it. :)

ETA: Really appreciate the simplicity of "I do not approve". I don't have much I can add to the larger discussion, but it's important to say that much, I think.

[beccatoria]

HAHAHA! Yes, the DANCING! :D Poor, overlooked dancing. I'm so glad others love it, and your icon.

(I'm also glad that I made sense with that; I liked its simplicity too.)