Apropos of a friend’s IBARW post, I went looking for good links that talk about Cultural Appropriation. For those with no time to read about it on Wikipedia, Cultural Appropriation is the selective adoption of elements of a culture one does not belong to, and is characterized by in some way idealizing what we like [...]
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Of course I’ll also update the metapost. As an archivist in this effort, I’m still taking the trouble. Otherwise, I think I would have quit by now. Anyhow, I’m posting new as well as updating the metapost. Also, because I am linking to troller or almost-troller posts, let me remind the unwary reader/commenter about my policy on trolling on this journal (from the [...] Interestingly, all of these links were on the first three pages of Google results from the phrase “rachel moss wiscon” A post on SeeLight goes into a discussion of fat politics and the author’s emotional reaction. So now that most of us know who the troller from WisCon is, what do we do about her? Various developments in the saga (actual property of being interesting not guaranteed). Extra bonus advice for our young, foolish troller included at end! Thing 1: Regarding the troller who took pics of WisCon attendees and contrived to have them posted (unsure whether this was intentional) on Something Awful and mirrored on various Something Awful radical splinter sites (along with sparkling commentary, real names and sometimes also the names of children also in attendance), I was remarking to my [...] |
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