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OH JOHN RINGO NO
The Open Source Boobs Project: Dear sir: I believe your patriarchy is showing.
The second post linked there had comments disabled, with a pointer to comment at the first post. The first post now has two heidipologies appended to the top, and he somehow managed to delete all 1300+ comments accidentally in the process of locking them. (Despite having been on LJ since forever and hosting many popular discussions.) I have a few of the upper-level pages in cache; anybody have more? ETA:Comments appear to be back for now; you can now follow comment links in peoples' posts.
For those of you who have been lucky enough not to see this yet, basically, some SF fans were trying to start a utopian project where anybody wearing a green "Yes, you may" button may be punched in the face for being gratuitously stupid. (And a slightly more hard-core swift kick to the balls version.)
It spreads: (These links all have lots of good discussion in comments too.) Coffeandink's response Kate-nepveu's response Springheel-jack's response the-red-shoes's response brown_betty's response, and a poll nestra's response cereta's response Mystickeeper summarizes Rachel Manija's response part 2 thebratqueen's response elynross's response seperis's response ojouchan's response movies-michelle brings out the big guns go-go-gidget/rowleyorama's response pixelfish's response pleonoastic's response blueraccoon's response oulangi's response RivkaT on Open Source and the Endowment Effect plasticsturgeon's Open Source African Hair Project sparkymonster, compiled. giandujakiss part 1 and part 2 tablesaw's lj post liz-marcs's post James Nicoll host a discussion The ladies at Dear Author cynthia1960, with bonus fuckwittery in the comments novapsyche, who participated and thought it was a neat idea ... until she read theferrett's post and got the details auryn29a ran a poll (please don't flood it, she's not one of us) shoutingboy asks about open-license pictures of boobs, and gets answers pantryslut concisely explains why it doesn't work that way. mcsnee, for a view of the other side serenejournal hosts a discussion vito-excalibur starts the Women Back Each Other Up Project also, free icon! rhienelleth tells it like it is deepad understands about red buttons caras-galadhon part one and two sorchar's response darkrosetiger's response ceteramisto's response seiberwing's response ginmar! Tamora Pierce's response crevette's response Mr. Goodwraith wants to touch your dolls. timjr offers a straight geek male's guide to interacting with females. from furikku, we can has macro! synecdochic noodles around; How not to be That Guy blessed-harlot wants people to think about the supporters' feelings trinityva concurs amanuensis thinks about utopia ninevah-uk writes Lord Peter fic immlass part 1 part 2 part 3 and a bingo card! nicked-metal's response uppityliberal's response desdenova's response snurri Is Concise delux-vivens's response Karnythia part 1 part 2 part 3 cbpotts has two daughters nihilistic-kid's response fengi's response elusis's response sinboy's response lauredhel's roundup perpetual-lent's response emmelinemay's response Netmouse gives another participant's view ladyjax's response desdenova's response isako/isa's response glvalentine offers a PSA k. tempest bradford's response wicked-sock's response miriammoules's response chash's response shaysday's response mlleelizabeth's response kita0610 is poetic emrinalexander's response ursulav's response The mst3k comm suggets Open Source Torgo Highwaywest: Jason's Guide to Con Flirting ...And Auntie Penknife's Guide to Flirting for Men bad-goth wonders why we are teaching them to flirt nevermore999's response the-rook's response sf_drama is full of drama. The dragon*con lj comm is also full of drama all (117 185 237!) searchable lj posts which link to the original... (There are around a hundred of them linked here as of one week later. Those are a) from fic fandom or journalfen people; b) widely linked; and/or c) do something notably different from others.) Cheapass games forum. I think I'm most boggled by the fact that they're *spoiler-cutting* the ending. Jezebel joins in Get Off The Internet wants to borrow some lye Pandagon punkassblog Hoyden About Town designated sidekick does some kicking Bookworm's response i bloviate talks about slut-shaming (btw, if anybody actually saw people doing this? show us the links, 'cause that's not on, sister.) Slog at The Stranger naamenblog is incredulous Karen Healey at Girls Read Comics - And They're Pissed GWOG responds You Are Dumb responds Occasional Superheroine responds Me And My Red Stapler responds Written World responds Smart Bitches, Trashy Books responds Rusty-halo's response Feminist SF - The Blog speaks up Feministing throws in Scalzi's response part 2 Oh boy, metafilter is here! Randy Milholland has T-shirts! the abortive otf_wank post - DO NOT COMMENT THERE - this is *so* not funny (crotch-kicking aside) - but it's a pretty good write-up if you want more than bare links. ETA: Comment all you want, with mod approval. It now features a boobie train. Hooray?
Comment thread links, readable for now: Loligo makes an excellent suggestion, followed by excellent discussion. Tablesaw is win. More face-punching. (I wonder why so many people were thinking along those lines?) mswyrr is also win. sparkymonster explains cloven oranges.
He has addedThe court of public opinion has added tags to the entry now. o boy. A LOLFerrett from robin_ma
A list of penguicon con reports - there were also giant pirate ships and singing Tesla coils there!
ETA: Just added a bunch more response links (I find wank migration patterns fascinating, I can't stop looking) and there are twoa few I want to point out in particular: vito-excalibur and the Women Back Each Other Up Project: "I would like to propose a little real world help for a real world problem." Back-up follow-up: We Has T-shirts and buttons! (There will be fliers!); Men's Auxiliary; Why men are only auxiliary; It's About the Problem. novapsyche, for a perspective from someone who actually wore a green button: "if I'd read theferrett's post about OSBP before someone offered me the pin, I would have turned it down." nineveh-uk writes Harriet Vane & co. vs. OSBP: ‘And then someone started going on about post-lapsarian inhibition, and how the only free soul was in a free body -’ The Boobie Project entry on Feminist SF - The Wiki, which has a great link round-up with chronology and edit history and commentary and things! the-red-shoes collects soundbites! "Should fit on a t-shirt."
LAST ETA: I have just disabled anon comments; porn spam has started arriving faster than legit discussion, sorry. If any anons want to keep talking, well, you can get a JF account!
Will be adding more links as I find them (feel free to drop them in comments); but as much of the great discussion was in the comments of the OP and is now gone, I wanted to get this up as soon as possible. ETA: Now adding more links. If you don't want your post linked, ask and it's gone.
Discuss!
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