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Gee, I'd love women if they didn't all suck!
Hi! This is a canned response. If I linked you back here instead of responding to you, I want to assure you that this is not about you! You totally have the right to a new and exciting response from me! You deserve it, you are worth it! The fact that I have heard something just like what you said a thousand times before and am completely over ( Read more... ) -
Do not fuck with the internet. The internet fucks you back MUCH HARDER.
So! If you've missed it, today's non-fandom brouhaha goes like so: woman (ETA: thanks to
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Elizabeth Moon, Islamophobia, and "immigrant" as a white code word.
If you haven't heard yet, Elizabeth Moon has posted a lovely little post about the duties of citizens, one which takes a sudden plunge off the rails when it abruptly becomes clear that the duties she's referring to is to either a) make your practice of a non-Christian religion invisible to Christians so as not to upset our little heads, or b) just ( Read more... ) -
Too many dicks on the dance floor, part eleventy-million.
I may go see Salt. I'm not sure about anything else. I kind of want to see Inception, just for the sake of the dreamscapes, but I've been dragging my feet on that all month and I don't know if I'll get around to it ( Read more... ) -
On the Bechdel Test.
I'm currently contemplating the discussion of epic fantasy and the Bechdel Test on kateelliott's LJ. Particularly this thread:
Does a story (book, movie, whatever) *have* to pass the Bechdel Test in order to be a valid story? I see an implication of passing/failing being a vital grade. A story that doesn't pass the test fails as a *story*.Okay. I don't ( Read more... ) -
My white privilege, let me show you it
Here, in a nutshell, is my white privilege: I have the option, any time I want, to forget about race. I can indulge myself in all-white television and gorge myself afterward on all-white fic, and never once have it brought home to me that race exists or even have myself reminded that the show or the fic are, in fact, all-white. I don't have to ( Read more... ) -
The various defenses of Splice, and why I hate them.
In case you've missed this going around:
makesomelove wrote an (all-caps!) review of the movie Splice. Warning: triggery. Because, goddamn. I was sort of "jeez, do we really need to have this in all-caps?" when I started reading the review, but by the end of it all my hair was on end and my face was all D: and I felt, quite strongly, that all-caps didn't ( Read more... )
