[feminism] This Changes Everything: the UEL Thread on Metafilter
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PAGING ALL FEMINISTS. REPEAT: PAGING ALL FEMINISTS. PAGING ALL FEMINISTS, ALL WOMEN'S LIBBERS, FEMINIST ALLIES, FEMINIST DOUBTERS, ANTI-FEMINISTS, REALLY ALL WOMEN, ALL MEN, ALL PEOPLE WHO HAVE EVER HAD ANY GENDER, OR DEALINGS WITH GENDERED PEOPLES, DROP EVERYTHING, GRAB YOUR GO BAG, AND REPORT TO THIS METAFILTER THREAD FOR YOUR TRANSCENDENTAL UPLIFT. EXPECT THIS TO EAT YOUR WEEK. THE FIFTH WAVE OF FEMINISM HAS BEGUN. THE REVOLUTION HAS STARTED.
You know how sometimes I will write a thing and it will be like a firecracker of insight going off in your head? Right now, there's a convoy of trucks full of firecrackers being dumped out in this Metafilter thread, and all the threads that are spawning from it. If you liked Massless Ropes, Frictionless Pulleys: Coordinative Communication, if you liked Consideration, this will light your head on fire.
Those of you in Fandom: remember all those !Fails? Imagine the exact valence opposite: a !Win. A vast, internet-exploding !Win. A vast, internet-exploding !Win of feminism. That's what this is. The Metafilter EmotionalLabor!Win of 2015. You don't want to miss this; trust me on this: go, go, go, go, go!
Also, as a meta-aside, that Metafilter thread is a monument of moderation. That is the freaking Eiffel Tower of forum moderation. It's like social justice advocates were engineers who were saying for years that by their calculations there was a way of doing moderation which would allow huge coherent revelatory discources of unimaginable power to be erected, and somebody finally pulled it off, and, yes, yes - holy shit - that is exactly what happened.
I will probably have lots to say on it. Later. Still reading and processing and watching my own firecrackers go off.
ETA Folks have started to quote their favorite bits in the comments here. Please do! Consider yourself invited to quote away. Please include links where possible (the timestamp on a Metafilter comment's sig is where the comment-specific link is hiding.)
PAGING ALL FEMINISTS. REPEAT: PAGING ALL FEMINISTS. PAGING ALL FEMINISTS, ALL WOMEN'S LIBBERS, FEMINIST ALLIES, FEMINIST DOUBTERS, ANTI-FEMINISTS, REALLY ALL WOMEN, ALL MEN, ALL PEOPLE WHO HAVE EVER HAD ANY GENDER, OR DEALINGS WITH GENDERED PEOPLES, DROP EVERYTHING, GRAB YOUR GO BAG, AND REPORT TO THIS METAFILTER THREAD FOR YOUR TRANSCENDENTAL UPLIFT. EXPECT THIS TO EAT YOUR WEEK. THE FIFTH WAVE OF FEMINISM HAS BEGUN. THE REVOLUTION HAS STARTED.
You know how sometimes I will write a thing and it will be like a firecracker of insight going off in your head? Right now, there's a convoy of trucks full of firecrackers being dumped out in this Metafilter thread, and all the threads that are spawning from it. If you liked Massless Ropes, Frictionless Pulleys: Coordinative Communication, if you liked Consideration, this will light your head on fire.
Those of you in Fandom: remember all those !Fails? Imagine the exact valence opposite: a !Win. A vast, internet-exploding !Win. A vast, internet-exploding !Win of feminism. That's what this is. The Metafilter EmotionalLabor!Win of 2015. You don't want to miss this; trust me on this: go, go, go, go, go!
Also, as a meta-aside, that Metafilter thread is a monument of moderation. That is the freaking Eiffel Tower of forum moderation. It's like social justice advocates were engineers who were saying for years that by their calculations there was a way of doing moderation which would allow huge coherent revelatory discources of unimaginable power to be erected, and somebody finally pulled it off, and, yes, yes - holy shit - that is exactly what happened.
I will probably have lots to say on it. Later. Still reading and processing and watching my own firecrackers go off.
ETA Folks have started to quote their favorite bits in the comments here. Please do! Consider yourself invited to quote away. Please include links where possible (the timestamp on a Metafilter comment's sig is where the comment-specific link is hiding.)