Apr. 22nd, 2008

tablesaw: My apperance on Merv Griffin's Crosswords (Let's Do Crosswords!)
This journal is getting a lot of attention for last night's post. I just want to affirm, since it's been asked, that anyone and everyone can add me to their friends list. My own policy for adding others to my own list is pretty haphazard, so don't worry if I don't add you back immediately or at all. And regardless, I don't do locked entries very often.
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With the rage gone and the sleep (mostly) back and my humors rebalanced, I want to add some more stuff about what is now being called "The Public-Domain Breast Project." Specifically, I'd like to point out a lot of other excellent responses that I haven't yet had the time or energy to highlight while I was wrapped up with my own battle.

What I took on was a close reading of the story that was presented. The sentence that turned me into a rage ball was this one:
Defaulting to a male-dominated group may be an assumption that's societally-valid, but I find that equally troubling that people would go, "Hmm. He talks about a group, so it must be guys." I wouldn't have assumed that at all.
And I spent the rest of the day going, "Here, here, here, in what you wrote, this is why we are assuming those things."

I was talking about how things were presented; my own straight male privilege made it harder for me to see a lot of the other context issues, the ones that explain why this was a bad idea generally. So I want to showcase those issues here. Hopefully it's obvious that the comments to these posts have lots of good information too:And there's an odd bit of synchronicity in that last one. Kate_Nepveu mentions "OH JOHN RINGO NO," and then The_Red_Shoes links to it. And it's weird because the evening before Theferrett's post, I'd just been reading American Women! You Are Not Inadequate! Really! by [livejournal.com profile] maga_dogg which uses the same reference. This is also a skewering of straight male privilege from a man, and it probably primed the pump for my own words the following day.

Now, getting ready for work. And when I have some spare moments, I'll get a chance to actually spend some time exploreing the journals at all of the people who've started reading this one.

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