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sistercoyote ([info]sistercoyote) wrote in [info]unfunny_fandom,
@ 2011-01-21 08:20:00


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Sometimes, there are no words.
[info]_dahne_ writes a screed about how being "PC" has gone too far.

I don't even know what to say about this, other than someone needs to have their privilege checked. Badly. (Except, of course, that "Privilege, like 'troll' or 'fail' can now mean whatever we want it to mean, so my little statement there is apparently OPPRESHUN of her truth. Or something.)

I count sexism, ablism, heterocentrism, and I'm pretty sure racism in this one sentence alone:
The male side of fandom runs around calling each other niggerfaggots while the female side has earnest ten-page debates on whether calling something crazy is ablist.
(Emphasis hers)

Because the boys doing that is totes okay, y'all, and the girls should be doing the same thing. And men never, ever talk about whether what they're saying is hurtful to other people or not, 'cause that's girly stuff. (Hey, wankaboys, come and sit in the invisible corner with us bisexuals, English majors, and ampersands.)

And then there's this:
Like the idea of "tone argument." At its core, this makes sense; it's meant to address the idea that abused classes of people shouldn't have to be deferential to their abusers in order to be listened to.

In practice, what it means is, "I'm allowed to be an asshole as long as I'm really, really sure I'm right."

I just...I can't. I mean, the tools of the master will never tear down the master's house, but come on. By refusing to accept the tenets of the tone argument, we're bullying the people in power?

Whut?

And both examples are from the first seven paragraphs of her little screed. There's also kind of a priceless gem in there about Fandom_Wank being a "prime vector" for "too much" political correctness.

And I think the worst bit is (as far as I could tell before the comments were pushing me to the ragey point) she's not getting any disagreement.

I would love to be able to write a thoughtful rebuttal that might be as widespread in fandom as this one's (apparently) getting, but I'm afraid my brain keeps hanging up on What Is This I Don't Even.

ETA: [info]t_boy found swordygardner's response which is a breath of fresh air in amongst all that fail. ETA 2: In fact, pretty much all of page 2 of the comments (which is about the point she turned off anon commenting, I'll bet you), is pretty awesome.


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[info]witty
2011-01-22 03:33 pm UTC (link)
I think the only living anti-library author is Harlan Ellison.

(Because the librarians killed and ate all the others, but Harlan tastes like gym socks.)

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[info]sistercoyote
2011-01-22 10:05 pm UTC (link)
Pfft. The other authors were vulnerable to the Death of a Thousand Paper Cuts, but Harlan is immune to everything except himself.

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[info]rosehiptea
2011-01-22 11:56 pm UTC (link)
The more I find out about Harlan Ellison the more I regret thinking he was a great writer. (Well, I still think he was a great writer, and still is for all I know, but I really don't think I'm paying to read anything he writes anymore.)

(Not that I hadn't always hear iffy things about him, but there were more along the lines of "Eh, he can be a real asshole, whatever.")

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[info]anthologia
2011-02-06 10:47 pm UTC (link)
I'm totally late and things, but I think you mean Harlan Ellison TM.

/solemn

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