: Tuesday, May 20th 2008
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vain: Musings on concrit and the nature and necessity of wank - Every time you open your mouth, you risk hurting someone, whether or not it is your intent. While people may be a gestalt in their own minds, to everyone else, we are all the sum of our actions--for better or worse. No one can fairly say, "I'm really a ni -- branchandroot: Machina, pathos and conflict - So, upon considering the question of disability in anime, two things pop immediately to mind. One: portrayals are very limited. Two: they’re almost all symbolic. For one thing, cognitive disabilities are pretty much non-existent unless it’s a case of -
- electricwitch: oh I got lipstick all over our keyboard player! - Alternatively, just post YOUR THOUGHTS ON STAGEGAY here, and I can use this post as the source (lol my ability to manipulate academia, let me show you it). Why do bands act sexual towards each other on stage and in media? -
- vee_fic: Masculinity and social class - On the other hand, the argument for inborn male attributes: this is a subtler invocation of class, because it doesn't link S3 Dean's low social status explicitly to his social learning; it links low social status to the real incarnation of maleness or mas -
- coffeeandink: Class and white masculinity in Supernatural - This is a narrative about class, which makes it unusual in genre TV; that doesn't make it a a politically progressive narrative about class. In the universe of the show, working class existence is a site of struggle that requires violence and is associate -
- affectingly: Just what you all wanted... - I don't believe Dean hates all women, but I think it's very easy for him to take his rage out on women who attack him or Sam, and/or challenge his place in Sam's life. That's only been enhanced so far by the sheer number of (evil) females or demons in fem -
- furiosity: MUMMEEEE! THAT MAN TOUCHED MY NO-NO PLACE! - The underlying assumption, even after all these years and all these debates, seems to be that anyone with kinks outside the vanilla zone must necessarily practice those kinks IRL. So that someone who likes breathplay on the page must have kinky breathplay -
- ruuger: Women like scifi y/n? (and my space show could totally beat your space show's ass!) - I've actually been meaning to do this poll (well, both of these polls) for a while now, but this article about why women don't like scifi (or so people say) inspired me to actually do it. -
- shared_wisdom: Beta Thoughts - These are not exhaustive or definitive notes, but the product of long experience which I hope will inform other beta readers and remind writers of the care and feeding of their betas. -
- fiercelydreamed: A few thoughts on how to have bigoted characters without creating a bigoted text.So what's the solution? So far, I've come up with three possible mechanisms, but I think they're pretty good ones:
1. Let the character be wrong because of those views.
2. Engage with those views in a context where they have the potential to make the re