| Issue #123 |
[Dec. 22nd, 2009|12:07 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | ! roundups, character death, fan entitlement, fandom and -isms, fandoms: buffy the vampire slayer, fandoms: dc comics, fandoms: torchwood, genres: kinkfic, genres: porn / pwp, meta about meta, pairings / relationships, race, sites: metafandom | ] |
Fandom-specific
[DCU] ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) shadowvalkyrie: DCU musings: "Specifically, porn. [...] Even more specifically, kinky porn. And the discrepancy of why the Bruce/Tim variety tends to be a great deal more popular than the Bruce/Jason one."
[Torchwood, Buffy the Vampire Slayer] firefly124: Okay, so everybody else has probably already read this AfterElton article (the article compared Torchwood and BtVS in regards to character death, and the post builds on that. I'm not being more specific because I'm unsure whether details about Torchwood's third season are still considered spoilers.)
General
thete1: "I know it's racist, Te, but the special effects look awesome!": "This has been on my mind -- harshing *my* squee -- since that first Transformers movie came out and so many of you were full of excuses about why you were going to see it anyway. Despite the racism."
In a post titled Saying Goodbye, yourlibrarian talks about important changes in TV, reality shows, the demise of the WB, and that the cause for the popularity decline in music games could be "a stranglehold on copyright".
cluegirl: Thoughts Contingent on Reader Entitlement; the fandom edition: "So what is it that makes us as readers so much more ready to be spiteful about work we DID NOT have to pay for? Other than the fact that we can, and the writer in question is unlikely to have highly paid lawyers who might give us a telling-off for acting like arseholes, I mean?"
skuf: Where's all the meta?: "Remember back in the day - e.g. 2006 - when [metafandom] issues were posted about every other day and had shitloads of links? What happened? Brainstorming: ..." (Cross-posted to DW, where the big discussion obviously seems to happen, but I decided to link the IJ version on principle.)
xie_xie_xie: metafandom and its discontents: "But the last three or four times I submitted a link, either mine or someone else's, either QAF-specific or "big picture" fandom meta, it was just ignored. I never knew if they just didn't like it, or didn't get it, or what the problem was."
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| happy solstice! |
[Dec. 21st, 2009|03:09 pm] |
I'm so glad that the days will now be getting longer again (in this hemisphere at least). Seven and a half hours of paltry, weak sunlight at best (usually much less with it being overcast) is just not enough. |
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| Sunday, December 20, 2009 |
[Dec. 20th, 2009|11:50 pm] |
- ratcreature: random poll - if you've been in fandom a long(-ish) time, do you ever feel nostalgia for fandom how it used to be? ("Fandom" in this case intentionally vague as I just mean whatever form of fandom you were involved in the era you are nostalgic for.) And if so, for which time period? -
- katta: Some clues on how not to write deaf characters - The disability fanfic site has uploaded a bunch of stuff, so I've been reading quite a lot, and there are a couple of things that bother me. -
- box_in_the_box: WHY SUPERHERO COMIC BOOK CREATORS SHOULD NOT INTERACT WITH FANDOM: - It occurs to me that what we have here is a microcosm of the exact same sort of tension between entertainment media producers and consumers as exists in just about any other genre or medium now, in which the whole movement toward "the author is dead" has inspired a backlash from the authors themselves, who aren't content with telling stories so much as they want the power to dictate how their audiences should react to their works. -
- sailorptah: Sigh. - But other times? Other times the discussion, while it may have started in a fannish place, has left that context behind long ago. Which means that, unless you were involved with it from the beginning, it boils down to this: "People you have no connection to (except that you both use the same blogging service, and/or enjoy watching TV and writing about it) said something which sounds like it was ill-advised (although you can't say for certain, because until five minutes ago you were not even aware this conversation had taken place) and now you get to hear a deconstruction of why they were wrong." -
- cupidsbow: meta twitter? - Maybe all the huge discussions of the last two years have actually changed the face of meta, because we feel more comfortable in just using that language and making short comments, rather than having to scale up our meta thoughts into full-blown essays. -
- crabapplered: Metafandom needs to re-evaluate. - The point is, if someone wants to talk about the mechanics of chakra in Naruto, they don't really want people to pop up and go "pft! Chakra! Now there's some fine cultural appropriation in that series" -
- rubyfruit_pixie: Also I Am A Horrible, Horrible Person (And That's Okay). - And I can think and squee at the same time. The two are not mutually exclusive, and I really wish people would stop thinking that they are. -
- renay: PSA to Emerging FFXIII Fans: Don't Do Racist Shit! - If these are the actions and behavior I have to look forward to from fans of Final Fantasy XIII, so help me, I am going to explode in rage on a near-daily basis. I mean, this is Racism 101 stuff. -
- renay: An Interesting and Heartbreaking Addition to the Debate At Hand: SEXISM! - My bottom line, to him and everyone else: the problem stopped being just the icons when people started defending their usage with extremely problematic words. Stop using the icons, yes, and then come back, because you defended them and you have to fix that mess you made, as well. -
- justira: Time to discuss racism and humour! aka how about them mildly infamous icons? - The relationship between humour and kyriarchy is... pretty complicated. It's quite easy to fall into a trap here: attempt, with the best intentions, to deride things worthy of derision, and yet in making the joke end up perpetuating those same ills. -
- vi: Bingo in FF fandom - It isn't this specific instance (Sazh and fried chicken jokes) itself, but that it is part of a larger trend of representing non-white characters in stereotyped ways, and the reaction of white-privileged fans being told that it's Not Cool. -
- heebeeAnyone else finding the "ironic" fried c - Anyone else finding the "ironic" fried chicken and/or watermelon-themed Sazh Katzroy icons in poor taste? -
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| random poll |
[Dec. 20th, 2009|06:07 pm] |
As another decade ends (I can't believe it's going to be 2010 in just a few days. yikes!) you see all the usual retrospectives etc.; also I've been editing fanlore (and you should too, the wiki needs more people /end shameless plug). This led me to wonder: if you've been in fandom a long(-ish) time, do you ever feel nostalgia for fandom how it used to be? ("Fandom" in this case intentionally vague as I just mean whatever form of fandom you were involved in the era you are nostalgic for.) And if so, for which time period? So I thought I'd do a poll.
The first is a question of whether you feel nostalgia, and in the second you can check tickyboxes to indicate for which time period you are feeling nostalgia. That I have split into two options for each period for an indication whether you actually were in fandom in that time period and feel nostalgia due to firsthand experience, or feel nostaligia because you have read or heard about that time and wish you had been in fandom then, because it just sounds more awesome to you than fandom now. I did give up to the early 2000s as options to feel nostalgia for, though I am a bit dubious whether you can call it "nostalgia" proper if it's less than ten years ago.
( fandom nostalgia poll, cut to spare your f-list ) |
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[Dec. 20th, 2009|02:13 am] |
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So, uh, you may have noticed I haven't been mirroring my livejournal posts on insanejournal lately. I still check my ij-flist quite often, but I don't... feel as connected to the service as I hoped to become. I know there's a couple people who primarily read me here, though, and I'm a little guilty about that.
(If you're curious what I've been up to, here's more issues of the recoloured Legion of Super-heroes, an Amanda Waller poem, and some Solicit Monday photoshopping. The rest is equal parts whining about yuletide and chatspam.)
With LJ's recent genderfail, I am back in the mindset where I am wanting to do something different. Yes, they fixed it, *but*. It does not do much for trust. Maybe I will actually start using my dreamwidth account.
I am curious, though, how many people are interested in reading my journal on ij but have no interest in dw? I can check out crossposting if I do decide to go that way, so it'd be good to know. |
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| Saturday, December 19, 2009 |
[Dec. 19th, 2009|09:28 pm] |
- djin7: On Reviews, Concrit, feedback or flames, what not to do on the internet - However, if you do not want uninvited critical reviews mixed in with glowing, positive reviews? You must hand pick and select your audience to only people who will do your bidding, and instruct them to do so, whether it's to your best interest or worst. -
- solarcat: A Question about Default Icons (Or, It's Amateur Sociology Time! \0/ ) - What impact does a default icon have? Do we draw conclusions about users based on their default icon? -
- londonkds: The honeymoon between fandom and Dreamwidth faces its first test - It has been reported that Dreamwidth has received legal letters from Marvel related to the ever-controversial scans_daily community. -
- elf: [in scans_daily] Some Copyright Basics - The basic principles, from a non-lawyer perspective (i.e. do not quote me in court unless you are attempting a defense of "not guilty by reason of mental defect or insanity"): Copyright law is *psychotic.* -
- das_dingsi: Heads-up: You don't get to respect only the "good" trans people and still call yourself an ally. - When a person asks you to use a certain pronoun for them, you use it. When they say they are trans, you act accordingly and don't question their identity. The self-identity of the trans person overrides everything else. If you don't respect that, you propagate transphobia. -
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| omg snow |
[Dec. 19th, 2009|06:25 pm] |
my yuletide level was OMGWTFPOLARBEARS, but then the sky descended upon us and now i don't really think i want to invoke polar bears! so i shall say that i'm still writing.
(there was a headline on the wapo site this afternoon that said "bears have trouble getting to baltimore" and i had a moment of pure "...!" before i realized that they were probably talking about the sports team.)
as for the snow, this post may explain it. also, there was cocoa with raspberry schnapps. (it appears i have finally found a use for the raspberry schnapps! thank goodness.)
work is still awesome, by the way. my project is interesting and i have all the control over it that i need in order to accomplish it, but people are also still answering my questions when i ask them with useful answers! i know, right? and this whole working from home thing remains very, very pleasing, especially to my cats.
project for when i have the !@#$ yuletide finished: upload the rest of my fic to the ao3. because i've only had my beta account since september what. sigh. (eta: i love this yuletide story that i'm writing! but the problem is that i love it so much that every time i sit down to write i come up with MORE of it and now i am afraid that it WILL NOT EVER END, OMG, DEADLINE, BUT IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL. so that's what i mean by "!@#$ yuletide".) |
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| Friday, December 18,2009 |
[Dec. 18th, 2009|11:22 pm] |
- noracharles: International fandom, again. - When you are in a discussion about tensions between cultures and prejudices against certain nationalities, and how Westerners (hint: especially Canadians and U.S. Americans) are generally ignorant, dismissive and fearful of people from certain countries, don't reframe the discussion to be about your own nation and culture, erasing and dismissing the actual people from actual different countries than your own whom you are currently talking to. -
- branchandroot: untitled - Were 6A ever called capitalist pigs? Multiple times in every heated post? Were they referred to at every turn as Americans or San Franciscans as though that somehow explained why they were bad? -
- bell: one discussion leads to another - However, the main reason I wanted to make this exchange public was to ask anyone reading my journals, on DW or on LJ, to not stereotype Russians in a similar way in comments to my posts. I feel it is phobic language in its own right, and just as I am trying to do away with ableist, racist, homophobic, and cis-privileged language, I would like to do with terminology and references that does not respect the complexity of a given culture and nation. -
- cupidsbow: diigo vs delicious, and how to set up diigo - There are several reasons I have accounts on two social bookmarking sites. Mostly, I began by wanting a back-up site for my recs on delicious; but having now compared the functionality of diigo and delicious, diigo is the clear winner in nearly all respects. -
- facetofcathy: Historical AUs and race--my thoughts and questions and no real answers. - We seem to have some kind of unspoken fandom consensus on this with respect to women in historical AUs, where they get to achieve a level of awesome about equivalent to a Jane Austen heroine, but are never quite too unbelievably modern, but I can't really find the conversation about race in historical AUs. -
- amber: come and play in my sandbox. - This isn't a Beginner's Guide to Dreamwidth, nor is it a comprehensive list of all the cool stuff the site has to offer. It's intended to be useful for people who want to RP here, and assumes prior experience in using a similar website to do so. -
- noracharles: Call for contributor guidelines to metafandom, and for more dw meta - How would you as a reader like to be made aware of interesting meta posted to dreamwidth, including the sort not accepted by metafandom? -
- 51stcenturyfox: Let's talk about sex, baby - Sex means something, even PWP sex. -
- marina: untitled - Now, we all know (well, maybe you don't) that ever since LJ was bought up by a Russian company the wank in English speaking fandom over THE KREMLIN TAKING OVER has been utterly insane. I remember when it first happened, I remember the initial panic (yes, panic) and how many people talked about feeling like LJ was on the verge of being purged of all that was "non conforming", everything that was "problematic" content. -
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| Quick notes |
[Dec. 18th, 2009|10:09 pm] |
♣ I have - I mean, my post on the recent Trans!fail and what (please, PLEASE) Not To Do, has been linked at The Hathor Legacy. Whoa. This is a surprise and also has never happened to me before. I mean, getting linked anywhere except for people's personal journals. Which is more... personal. - Anyways, cool!
♣ (I plan a second part, btw, because I've been stupid enough to read journal posts by parties involved and encountered some very upsetting statements which are variants of common transphobic... tropes. And cissexism. And cis privilege. But I feel I need to recharge my batteries first.)
♣ Early shift is EVIL. It's an inhuman condition for a Dingsi. I'm so glad this week is over.
♣ Snow is also evil, because it's my turn with the communal cleaning and that means I have to get up at 06:15 tomorrow (i.e. in seven hours) and make sure the foot-walk in front of our house is snow-free and covered in road salt. *hates*
♣ Party tomorrow at a local disco, might possibly attend. Yay socialising! ... Not if it stays that cold, though. The weather makes me want to curl up in my cave and eat steaming-hot meals four times a day. Sigh.
♣ I'm glad to have you. |
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| Rant on flawed characters (again) |
[Dec. 18th, 2009|10:18 am] |
Characters in most novels, of course, have to have flaws. Novels exist where they don’t, but often the character is either boringly idealized or part of a historical and cultural context that doesn’t exist in most twenty-first-century Western countries any longer. (Characters like Herman Melville’s Billy Budd and George Eliot’s Eppie are also meant to serve a specific allegorical purpose that’s rare for modern fantasy novels). But it’s also possible to make a character too flawed, or to add only “charming” quirks that don’t actually impact a character’s life in any discernible way. I’m sure you can think of at least one protagonist whose only fault was being too generous, or too kind-hearted. (I will never get back the hours of my life which I wasted reading The Wayfarer Redemption).
Here, then, are some (more) ideas about adding flaws to characters and what to do once you have them.
( Read more... )
A rant on loyalty is probably next. |
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| Thursday, December 17, 2009 |
[Dec. 17th, 2009|07:16 pm] |
If you are interested in becoming a link compiler, please send an e-mail to metafandom at gmail dot com.
- ladyoneill: sometimes it's like I'm thirty two all over again - So, please write what you want the way you want it! Don't change your stories because someone doesn't like it. Use constructive criticism if you must, but don't let it outweigh your own desires. -
- kaigou | contemplating the leap: fanfiction and original fiction - The reviewer goes on to suggest that fanfiction works on a basis of potential plausibility, that is, giving the reader a situation or behavior not seen in canon that, when argued/presented by a skillful fanfic writer, become plausible (believable) extrapolations of the original character. But this also means paying more attention to the character's actions, mindsets, mannerisms, whatever, both to reinforce the character's shared story-origins -- eg speaking patterns, or facial expressions -- and then to overlay the subtle changes introduced by the fanfic's author. -
- synecdochic: wow. just .... wow. - Gender will be a mandatory field at account creation...LiveJournal is removing the Unspecified option for the gender field. That's right: you get to be male or female. Period. That's it. -
- skuf: Where's all the meta? - What do you think has influenced the seeming decline in general fandom meta as indicated by the fewer links in metafandom issues as compared to a couple of years ago -
- flourish: Fans, cultists, and enthusiasts - But it does help me see that we need greater granularity in our discussions of fandom. And yet, as was made crystal clear in my last post, it's always most appropriate to call people what they want to be called - and that's probably why I have such a knee-jerk negative reaction to the idea of being called an 'enthusiast.' I'm not a Harry Potter enthusiast, dammit! I'm a fan! -
- thete1: "I know it's racist, Te, but the special effects look awesome!" - The simple fact of the matter is that every dollar you spend on these films (and TV shows, and books, and everything else) is a dollar telling Them -- yes, Them -- that it's just fine to piss all over me and other people of color for the sake of 'entertainment.' You're part of the problem. -
- sheafrotherdon: The Stories We Tell - Yesterday I read...an AU set in the American Midwest after the War of 1812, and follows the fortunes of Sheppard, McKay, Weir, and Lorne as they travel west to lands granted to them, or bought, in northern Illinois. There they meet Teyla and the Athosian people who are, in this story, Native American.
The story modifies the real historical record in several key ways, the most troubling of which was, to me, the erasure of the region's actual Native communities from the narrative....
The author has, however, given me permission to post my thoughts here, and to reference our email conversation, in the hopes of promoting a larger discussion about historical AUs and the challenges and responsibilities inherent in writing about diverse cultures.
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| "I know it's racist, Te, but the special effects look awesome!" |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|05:27 pm] |
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| | Jay-Z vs. The Verve: "Brush Your Bittersweet Shoulders Off" | ] |
*points up* I hate that.
I really, really, *really* hate that. Can you guess why? Wait, wait. If you can't, I don't really want to know. This has been on my mind -- harshing *my* squee -- since that first Transformers movie came out and so many of you were full of excuses about why you were going to see it anyway. Despite the racism.
Yes, yes, giant robots and you love them. I love things, too -- I know how it goes. But.
( But. ) |
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| random rat post |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|11:21 am] |
Why is it that rats themselves can smell so awesome, when their pee smells just like smelly pee? Seriously, rats themselves smell very nice: If you bury your nose in their fur it is a pleasant smell, much better than most other animals I've smelled up close (admittedly mostly cats and dogs so the comparison sample is small). And yet -- they pee in their sleeping spaces where they then lie down, and they pee on each other anyway, but while I smell like gross rat pee when they inevitably mark me or my clothes, they come out smelling like roses. Well not roses, but a nice non-pee smell. I just don't get it. |
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| Infinite, undying |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|05:08 am] |
Infinite, undying
by Te
November 14, 2009
Disclaimers: No one and nothing here is mine.
Spoilers/Timeline: Mostly vague and AU-ized references to older storylines. Takes place not long after "War Games."
Summary: There is careful, and then there is careful *enough*.
Ratings Note/Warnings: Sexual content which mostly doesn't have a damned thing to do with the content some readers may find disturbing.
Author's Note: A closer-to-real sequel to ending two of A way so familiar. Will not make sense without the other.
Acknowledgments: Pixie and Mildred asked very nicely, and then joined Jack for audiencing duties. *hugs all around*
Story! |
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| Quick Update re: LJ's Gender Fail |
[Dec. 15th, 2009|06:58 pm] |
You've probably read by now that LJ tried to push some code recently that would have made picking a "gender" field -- male or female -- mandatory for signing up, and which would have removed the "unspecified" field altogether. You've probably read it on your flist or dwircle*, because it's been all over mine. And I'd like to say, no matter how shitty I think LJ's move has been, to see post after post of people protesting and signal-boosting and taking action did give me warm fuzzies.
However, after LJ back-pedalled they were trying to sell it as a "mistake" that "did not have any chance to go live". Which is bullshit, as ![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) branchandroot explains.
You can read an overview of both the change and the official reply in synecdochic's journal.
One last thing: yes, they took it back, but at some point they thought it was a good idea, or else they wouldn't have tried. And it's not exactly reassuring that they didn't even announce this, but decided to sneak it in quietly and remove it only after users protest.
ETA: okay, one other last thing: this code change would have sucked, obviously, for all people on the trans or genderqueer/agender spectrum. But it's also about girls and women who prefer not telling their gender on the internet to avoid harassment or stalking.
* I've seen someone else use that word (a portmanteau of Dreamwidth and their 'friendslist' term, Circle) in their journal, and it's equally cute and odd, so I heart it.
ETA: off to bed. Will read comments tomorrow, reply when I have the time. Plz be excellent to each other. Thnx. |
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| it's insanely-early o'clock |
[Dec. 15th, 2009|04:22 am] |
We oughtta have an initiative constitutional amendment to ban 7:00 finals. 8:00 classes are hell enough. *got up at 4:00* |
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| it would probably be intrusive... |
[Dec. 15th, 2009|08:13 am] |
...but sometimes I think it would be cool if journalling sites had a function to "suggest me a new journal to read" not a random one, but a suggestion based on your current subscriptions, interests, maybe on some kind of other fuzzy, internal data-mining (the aforementioned "intrusive" part). I'm not sure how these things work, but like what Amazon does when it suggests books to you (sometimes they even suggest me interesting things, though that one is hit and miss, even though I actually tried to refine it manually) or that online music thing, Pandora?, that tries to guess what your tastes music are (that wasn't bad, though I couldn't use it for long, because eventually these location blocks happened). Anyway, something more advanced than the "popular among your friends" feature that LJ offered (offers? I can never really find that on the site anymore), and you could refine its suggestions. |
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| Harrumph |
[Dec. 14th, 2009|11:05 am] |
Dear YouTube peoples:
All I really want to see is pretty pictures of a nifty phenomenon that happened over Norway a few days ago. Because of the pretty. Because of the amazingly beautiful, in fact. I mean, that was totally awesome and I wish I'd been there to see it firsthand.
I really don't need your tinhat explanations of what it means. Please to be not showing me crop circles and telling me that stargates are real.
Whyyyyyyy can't you all just enjoy the pretty? And let me see it without having to swallow your global thermonuclear martian theories along with?
:P |
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[Dec. 14th, 2009|03:26 pm] |
Just got back from work. My journal didn't explode, which is cool! I also had maybe one hour of sleep and I wonder if I only feel good because my body currently produces its own drugs. Hah.
For the record, it's okay to link to the previous post, bookmark it, or pet it and call it George. The ETA's mainly there because, well, I didn't know what would happen during my absence. And if it should spare anyone the hassle of having to explain things all over again to Clueless Person Of The Day, that alone would be worth it.
I'm still digesting the responses and thoughts of others. And your comments mean a lot to me. Of course, it's gonna take days for me to answer them, but... still. You're awesome.
There's so much else I want to write about. My energy levels fluctuate wildly, but my brain never shuts up, I just cannot keep up and it frustrates me.
Damn, I haven't even eaten yet. *shoves fast-food baguettes into the oven* |
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| Sunday, December 13, 2009 |
[Dec. 13th, 2009|08:54 pm] |
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| Heads-up: You don't get to respect only the "good" trans people and still call yourself an ally. |
[Dec. 14th, 2009|01:04 am] |
(Entry Mirror List: InsaneJournal / Dreamwidth)
This is, in the short run, a reaction to the goings-on in a recent Fandom Wank post. I'm not linking to it because a) you probably will see (or already have seen) lots of links around your Flist/Circle, and b) in the long run, it is also about attitudes I see popping up over and over and over again. Attitudes I'm fucking sick and tired of, so I decided to adress them, hopefully so that I can just link to this post in the future instead of breathing fire for several paragraphs in someone else's community/journal.
Post-it version: When a person asks you to use a certain pronoun for them, you use it. When they say they are trans, you act accordingly and don't question their identity. The self-identity of the trans person overrides everything else. If you don't respect that, you propagate transphobia.
Okay, now the tl;dr version.
( Cut for length. )
ETA: I'm now off to bed because I have, like, three hours of sleep left before going to work. And then I'll be at work instead of watching my comment inbox. (Back.) I can't say where this entry gets linked and I'm not around 24/7, so IF any strangers should show up to spill -phobic shit, they could get away with it for a while (if the other commenters let them). But believe me, I have no qualms swinging the banhammer once I'm back home.
ETA2: despite my caveats above - yes, you can link to this entry, quote from it (just don't repost it in its entirety), and pet it and call it George.
ETA3, Dec 19th: I plan on writing a second post (when I have regained my energy, that is, because damn the topic is ugly) where I want to take on some other arguments I've seen popping up, especially "you're only helping him spread his lies" and "I ttly respect trans folks but this is about that asshole scammer", so please do NOT go there. Also, please keep in mind that there are a lot of trans people reading this and the problems and attitudes I described above are very personal and upsetting for them, not to mention myself. Be respectful. |
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[Dec. 12th, 2009|12:40 pm] |
My brothers are chasing each other around the house, fighting over who gets to practice running in high heels next.
It would be much more impressive if the only pair of heels we have weren't so short. |
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yuletide omg
awake
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