More linkspam than expected

[elf]

Sorry I missed yesterday. It seemed to have slowed down... and then the Wiscon links started coming in.

ellid: My sole post on Racefail, Mammothfail, etc. (Closed to comments.)

gwailowrite: Why RaceFail09 and MammothFail and Avatar Whitewashing Matter to a Pasty-white, Middle-aged Gay Guy

embololalia: Links for 2009-05-20

badgerbag: Colonialism & SF

unusualmusic: on the subject of intersectionality and practicing what I preach

kathmandu: Lies, Memory, and Creativity that Isn't

technoelfie: Untitled: The whole RaceFail discussion pisses me the fuck off. (Warning for, well, title makes it pretty obvious.)

ysabetwordsmith: Native American History -- Alive and Kicking!

badgerbag: Sunday panel: Something is Wrong on the Internet! (Wiscon liveblogging)

takumashii: Wiscon: Authorial intent vs. reader response (liveblogging)

thingswithwings: not anon

villeinage: They won't thank you when you're right: FAIL and the blogosphere at large (tangential at best, but related themes.)

ndgmtlcd: 13th child by Patricia Wrede (Positive review.)

eclecticrafts: Review: Thirteenth Child by Patricia Wrede (unrelated positive review; makes no mention of racefail.)

Comments

[From: eruthros]

Thanks so much for your compilation and archival work!

I think you've missed some html? The top two links are, well, link-less. :)

[From: elf]

Oops! Is fixed now.

[From: ceri]

This time I was smart and did NOT read the post with the warning.

I'm so proud of me for not being an utter idiot.

[From: keeva]

Yay! I'm proud of you too!

[From: elf]

You miss out on... nothing, really. The opening line, which I quoted, pretty much covers it.

I include the hateful posts because it's useful to know who's NOT an ally, and because there's often lurkers/newcomers who think "why are people getting so angry? Of course we all hate racism and we're all trying to stop it, even when we're not very good at it."

I suspect the people in the warned posts (this one, and in the last linkset) believe they hate racism... as long as they get to define "racism." Letting the victims define it doesn't occur to them as useful.

[From: ceri]

Oh, I think it's very important to include some of the hostile spread, to get the whole picture. Not complaining about your judgment at all, only remarking on the foolishness of some of my use of the links. :)

[From: fridgepunk]

back in the day, Rydra_Wong tended not to provide any warning for any but the most batshit insane posts, so you whipper snappers these days have it very easy.

[From: elf]

I'm still trying to sort out what to warn for, but I figure that anything that says some variant of "people are stupid for talking about this" gets a warning.

[From: keeva]

Untrue! She deliberately avoided linking to W*ll Sh*tt*rly, who pretty much is the gold standard by which "batshit insane" is measured.

[From: skywardprodigal]

I've never been sorry for skipping posts with warnings.

[From: haolewrites]

I'm sorry ellid doesn't have her/his (?) post open for comments because it's beautifully concise.

[From: elf]

That it is. I can understand not allowing comments, but there was no way I wasn't going to include it.

[From: ellid]

I didn't allow comments because I'm in the middle of a three-week intensive class that is pure hell on earth and cannot handle distractions. I thank you for your comments, though. It means a great deal.

[From: amaresu]

I received a response from Patricia Wrede: http://amaresu.dreamwidth.org/375317.html

I've been a bit slow on responding to the comments, but I figured it'd be a good thing to have here.

[From: elf]

Thank you for that; definitely want to include it in the next batch. (Which might wind up being the final batch.)

[From: sanguinity]

If you're putting new words of Patricia Wrede into the linkspam? Probably won't be the last linkspam, I think.

[From: skywardprodigal]

Thanks for sharing that.

[From: dharma_slut]

yanno, back not so long ago when I first failed in public, some very kind person said to me; "It might seem like people are yelling at you, but that means people think you are worth yelling at. They think there's a chance in hell that you will get it."

Which was so flattering, frankly, that it gave me the impetus to dive back in and begin unpacking.

Technoelfie... not worth yelling at. There's not a chance in hell that she or her friends will get it.

[From: sanguinity]

http://sanguinity.livejournal.com/494546.html

Final part of the Am. Indian Contributions to the World series.

[From: owlectomy]

I also blogged another WisCon panel, here, which touches very briefly on 13th Child and its issues. (May be too brief to be considered a related post.)

[From: owlectomy]

(Actually, this is the same panel as the Colonialism & SF one blogged by badgerbag, so no need for an extra link.)