Comments | silverfyshxin: A note about the Sheroes cultural appropriation discussion

silverfyshxin

A note about the Sheroes cultural appropriation discussion

Oct 08, 2009 09:29

I wish I'd thought of this yesterday, but I didn't. I only digested it in class, so here I am, typing it up now.

I can't link to all the specific things because the LJ posts are flocked and I have half an hour before class starts. Apologies.

Cultural Appropriation, presented by Sheroes

And just for funsies, here's a Racefail bingo card! And a ( Read more... )

sheroes, racefail '09, stfu, failure

Comments 12

streussal October 8 2009, 19:22:33 UTC

The culture of off-topic on Sheroes is alive, so far as I can say since I left. However, this was not a post about shipping nor was it a boxers or briefs poll. This was about a real person being hurt, and having her concerns being brushed off. This was about something that is prevalent, something that does happen, and it was being obscured, obfuscated behind concerns that, while perhaps no less real, were in the wrong space and which detracted from the issue.

YES.

And how did the interview go?

silverfyshxin October 9 2009, 04:03:17 UTC

I feel like I keep repeating this sentiment with every iteration of Racefail. This says things about humanity that I don't want to examine too closely.

The interview went well! I think. I hope. Hahaaaaaaaaa.

wyldlittlepoet October 8 2009, 23:09:22 UTC

I---just, yeah. I can't even properly process what went on, because it was so ridiculous. So completely ridiculous...

silverfyshxin October 9 2009, 04:35:46 UTC

*HUGS* When I start to get over it, I think about how they shredded you, and I grow angry all over again. It spiralled so completely out of control, and it wasn't your fault.

aceofspades13 October 9 2009, 00:38:16 UTC

...I couldn't even get past the first 20 posts on that thread without wanting to run my head into a wall. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU SHEROES!?

silverfyshxin October 9 2009, 04:43:04 UTC

Pri~vi~lege~

And a lot of fail. Sheroes is so not a safe space, man.

aceofspades13 October 13 2009, 19:31:41 UTC

It's like the Detroit of the Internet

aceofspades13 October 13 2009, 19:32:12 UTC

Okay no, that would be like somethingawful, Sheroes is more like uh...Oakland?

cretey October 9 2009, 00:51:27 UTC

:(

sheroes sucks sometimes.

silverfyshxin October 9 2009, 04:51:29 UTC

Yeah, iawtc.

dahee_fanel October 9 2009, 04:12:41 UTC

At times like these, I remind myself that Sheroes has its good qualities along with the bad, and that since I've been there for almost exactly seven years already, I'd might as well stick it out until the bitter, bitter end.

I'm going to drive myself nuts one of these days. =\

silverfyshxin October 9 2009, 05:02:47 UTC

(Seven years? Whoa, you're old that's a terribly long time.)

D: That's not a good sign. But, err, yeah, I left for a reason, and right now, ever going back, even just to be silly, looks quite slim, chance-wise.