Comments | bellatrys: This is the really short version.

bellatrys

This is the really short version.

Jan 15, 2009 22:46

It may get longer and full of ObRefs and anecdotes like the outline of it is in my head. But at least it's down on digital paper and up for argument, unlike my attempt to address this exact same blogosphere event the first time it happened starting on the exact same blog which got to be pages and pages of incoherent free association and then got ( Read more... )

stupidity, sexism, reciprocity, racism, cultural imperialism, privilege, homophobia

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sajia January 16 2009, 05:07:31 UTC

I've been meaning for a while to write a post on my unrequited blog-crush on Roz Kaveney - such a moving writer on religious homophobia and on radfemme transphobia, such a blockhead on understanding the diversity of the Muslim female experience; she was willing to overlook Moore's Sinophobia in LOEG as "ironic", and wilfully misunderstood Edward Said's position in Orientalism.

IRONY - UR DOIN IT WRONG bellatrys January 16 2009, 05:21:01 UTC

...if your "ironic" revisioning is *indistinguishable* from the unironically-bigoted original, it's pretty safe to say. There will always be incidents of exception, since irony like satire and other forms of verbal play is experienced subjectively and *extremely* context-dependent, but generally speaking people *ought* to be able to tell when you're just "doing the voices", so to speak.

--I also need a "This is not rocket science, people!" icon.

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Re: This is not rocket science, people! nenya_kanadka January 16 2009, 13:07:12 UTC

Ooh, stealing the third one, will credit.

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wordweaverlynn January 16 2009, 07:15:18 UTC

(standing ovation)

nenya_kanadka January 16 2009, 13:07:40 UTC

Seconded. Also, icon <3.

raanve January 16 2009, 14:48:03 UTC

And if you seriously can't cope with the thought that somebody, somewhere, is not only not going to like something you've made, but gasp! may even have a valid criticism of it, then you should not be putting anything you create out in public.

THANK YOU!

tlachtga January 17 2009, 02:02:56 UTC

I used to/will start going to again a playwriting group, and unsurprisingly there's always someone who basically thinks of theater as a great way to get people to act out his rape fantasies. And, naturally, you get to comment on it afterwards.

I eviscerated one guy for just such a piece, and my husband, who was there, says that was the moment he fell in love with me. :D