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Dec. 2nd, 2009 08:16 am
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Sex Does Not Always Sell



The message we always hear is sex sells, especially at the movies. A new report Sex Doesn’t Sell — Nor Impress by Anemone Cerridwen and Dean Keith Simonton refutes that claim. The report studied 914 mainstream Hollywood films(and their box office domestically and overseas, critical appraisal and awards) from 2001-2005, and found that in contrast to most of the Hollywood thinking “sex and nudity do not, on the average, boost box office performance, earn critical acclaim, or win major awards.” The study was recently published in the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts journal.

Well, that sure throws a wrench into the conventional wisdom which has been that sex, sexuality and nudity are vital for box office success. Yet, according to Simonton preconceived notions are hard to break even with data:
…I was struck by how hard it is to overcome preconceptions about the box-office consequences of highly graphic sexual content…
It seems that this whole thing was started by the righteous anger of a woman, the co-author Anemone Cerridwen who, when taking acting classes felt that the type of roles women she had to play made her very uncomfortable. (Guess it’s a good thing she became a researcher and left the acting to others.) But still, she wanted to know what the story was, why women’s roles are so sexualized, and spent many years crunching numbers. Here's some of her analysis



Which reminds me of what I read yesterday:

The Media: A World of Hits

Of all creative media enterprises, Hollywood is the most confident of its ability to predict demand. Film studios carry out rigorous audience research and adjust production and marketing budgets according to the size of the group they are targeting. The studios have learned that stars are much less reliable generators of profits than films based on known characters and stories. That is why, in August, Disney agreed to pay $4 billion for Marvel Entertainment, a veteran comic-book and media firm that had filed for bankruptcy protection in the mid-1990s.MORE

1.When they tell you that they can't cast minority actors because the audience doesn't know them? They are lying to you.

2. If stars are not reliable movie money generators, and if sexuality does not necessarily bring in the money either, is there any chance that Hollywood would up the ratio of actors to pretty people who can't act, and stop flaunting women's bodies in my face in lieu of a plot? To point where James Cameron is sexualizing freaking ALIENS?!?!!?
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I know its a playboy interview. But Jesus Christ! I dont even know what to snip and highlight!!!!!


PLAYBOY: Sigourney Weaver’s character Ellen Ripley in your film Alien is a powerful sex icon, and you may have created another in Avatar with a barely dressed, blue-skinned, 10-foot-tall warrior who fiercely defends herself and the creatures of her planet. Even without state-of-the-art special effects, Zoe Saldana—who voices and models the character for CG morphing—is hot.
CAMERON: Let’s be clear. There is a classification above hot, which is “smoking hot.” She is smoking hot.

PLAYBOY: So Saldana’s character was specifically designed to appeal to guys’ ids?
CAMERON: And they won’t be able to control themselves. They will have actual lust for a character that consists of pixels of ones and zeros. You’re never going to meet her, and if you did, she’s 10 feet tall and would snap your spine. The point is, 99.9 percent of people aren’t going to meet any of the movie actresses they fall in love with, so it doesn’t matter if it’s Neytiri or Michelle Pfeiffer.

PLAYBOY: We seem to need fantasy icons like Lara Croft and Wonder Woman, despite knowing they mess with our heads.
CAMERON: Most of men’s problems with women probably have to do with realizing women are real and most of them don’t look or act like Vampirella. A big recalibration happens when we’re forced to deal with real women, and there’s a certain geek population that would much rather deal with fantasy women than real women. Let’s face it: Real women are complicated. You can try your whole life and not understand them.

PLAYBOY: How much did you get into calibrating your movie heroine’s hotness?
CAMERON: Right from the beginning I said, “She’s got to have tits,” even though that makes no sense because her race, the Na’vi, aren’t placental mammals. I designed her costumes based on a taparrabo, a loincloth thing worn by Mayan Indians. We go to another planet in this movie, so it would be stupid if she ran around in a Brazilian thong or a fur bikini like Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C.



PLAYBOY: Are her breasts on view?
CAMERON: I came up with this free—floating, lion’s-mane—like array of feathers, and we strategically lit and angled shots to not draw attention to her breasts, but they’re right there. The animation uses a physics-based sim that takes into consideration gravity, air movement and the momentum of her hair, her top. We had a shot in which Neytiri falls into a specific position, and because she is lit by orange firelight, it lights up the nipples. That was good, except we’re going for a PG-13 rating, so we wound up having to fix it. We’ll have to put it on the special edition DVD; it will be a collector’s item. A Neytiri Playboy Centerfold would have been a good idea.MORE



Where do you even BEGIN?!?!?!? With the part where women are fuck objects for men even as they go about teh deadly business of defending their homes from invaders? With the history and presence of rape and coercion that is ever present in these circumstances? To the point where dear god he insists on giving the character breasts even though her species shouldn't have breasts? How fucking skeevy and stomach turning is that????

Or do we mention the part where he seems to position the Mayans as aliens?

I designed her costumes based on a taparrabo, a loincloth thing worn by Mayan Indians. We go to another planet in this movie, so it would be stupid if she ran around in a Brazilian thong or a fur bikini like Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C.

Or does he think all the Mayans are dead?
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Colourface Epidemic Infects ANTM
We don’t usually quote directly from tipsters, but I am too stunned to paraphrase right now. Cassandra reports:
Each girl was given two ethnicities: Tibetan/Egyptian, Greek/Mexican, Moroccan/Russian, Native American/East Indian, Botswanan/Polynesian, Malagasy/Japanese. Five girls are white, one is Asian, and a few are donned in black face and all in “ethnic” outfits (a combination of an aspect of each culture, evident in the photos), which Tyra explains, “Every outfit is not necessarily what people of that culture are wearing now, it might not even be a necessary exact of what they’ve worn in the past, it’s a fashion interpretation of it.” Nicole, assigned to look Malagasy/Japanese, remarks how she’s always wondered what she looked like as a different race and that she felt she looked “exotic.” The girls had to somehow embody what people of those ethnicities were like i.e. Tyra saying, “Think Egyptian, think [insert ethnicity], think of what those people were like, etc.”

INSERT SCREAMS OF HORROR AND FOAMING AT THE MOUTH NOW.MORE



Tyra Banks is known for doing shitty stuff, WTF is this exactly? The link links to a Jezebel writeup that is much more gentle, but frankly they give Tyra too much damned credit. The woman acts the fool all the fucking time and I am sick of the stupidity. There is no fucking excuse, and i don't care about here frigging motive, this is straight up fuckery, and girl needs to get her head out of her ass.
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French Vogue shoots model in Blackface.




Seeking ever edgier territory, having dispensed with motherhood and cannibalism as sources of controversy, Vogue Paris took pictures of Dutch supermodel Lara Stone in blackface. Stop me if you've heard this one before!
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The fact that the issue, dedicated to "Supermodels," contains no black models, should also have been noticed, and corrected.

Given Klein is American, it would be nearly impossible to even argue that the magazine didn't know what buttons it was pushing. It's kind of sickening to think that minstrelsy has become just another "reference" for po-mo fashion editorials to "appropriate" to show how "edgy" they are, "conceptually."

After painting Stone's body brown, the makeup artist then apparently painted parts of her white again.

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Treat your disgust by getting the latest issue of Arise Magazine, now on Barnes and Noble shelves near you.
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Welcome to International Blog Against Racism Week 4!
For 2009, IBARW will take place between July 27 to August 2.

For how you can participate click here
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What karynthia said



Because some people seem to believe that we cannot see your dirty racial laundry re: Uhura and Spock, mixed with teh smelly misogyny that plagues all the other females who have the unfortunately plot point of getting in the way of your favorite slash couples.


And because it is disgusting of you to appropriate the struggles of LGBT Americans so as to satisfy your attraction to slashing goodlooking men. (Hello lesbians in Star Trek would be disappointing, we need Kirk Spock or else! To say nothing of the relative paucity of fic slashing women compared to men.)
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STOP WHITEWASHING YOUR BOOK COVERS!!!! You are actually LOSING customers because of that, assholes! I saw both of her books and decided against picking them up because I was sick and tired of white protagonists all day long and was looking for books with POC on them!


Speaking of which, I have REALLy got to congratulate my Barnes and Noble. I have complained before about the mostly white section of YA fic. In teh past few weeks, it has diversified to an ASTONISHING extent. There are book featuring black people with black faces on the covers, that aren't necessarily about blacks in the ghetto, all over the place! There was even a book written by an American of mixed Indian and African descent featuring an Indian/African American girl and her Hispanic stepsister! And historicals. With black girls wearing awesome dresses on the cover!! SQUEEEEE!!!


Now, I want more books featuring lesbian characters (seriously guys, it ain't only white boys who are gay WTF!!) more Muslim Americans and Hispanic and Latina Americans WHO AREN'T REPRESENTED BY WHITE OR HIGH BROWN PEOPLE ON THE COVER BECAUSE SKIN COLOUR OF HISPANIC AMERICANS ACTUALLY ENCOMPASS THAT AND FIRST NATIONS AND BLACK PEOPLE AS WELL AS THEIR VARIOUS MIXES AS WELL WTH IS WRONG WITH YOU!!! And trans teens as well as Native American books aside from "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian" would be nice! Great start! Now lets do more!!!

Also, the extra seating, especially those squishy armchairs, is GREATLY appreciated!

EDIT: Huh:Kimani Tru (YA African American fic) is an imprint of Harlequin! I didn't know that!

So willow is pointing out that the Kimani Tru Imprint has skanky SKANKY RACE AND CLASS ISSUES

And I remember that that there is issues with the way black teens are being presented in their YA books vs the way white teens are presented Oh my god. This is annoying the fuck out of me now.

clusterfuck

Apr. 8th, 2009 09:19 pm
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via:shakesville

Skin Bleachers in Jamaica



Despite being entirely illegal, skin lightening creams are big business both in the UK and in Jamaica - but who are the women - and men - who use them? And who sells them?


Colonialism leading to the whiter the better, the blacker the worse mentality...Thanks a lot, Britain.
Lighter is Better
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So someone made a list of the authors that she would avoid based on the racefail imbroglio. And many a person are having fits because this is a boycott/blacklist and boycotts are wrong because...it might hurt the author? Or maybe it reminds one of...McCarthyism/ book burning/ fascism ZOMG? I really don't get the argument that they are using.This is how I look at things.
The various authors linked to have expressed racist and sexist views unrepentantly. They have have have used descriptors of me and mine that include cunt, whore, uneducated, malignant fuckwit, troll, orc, unintellectual, witch-hunting, ignorant and too many others for me to even remember. Are you people now seriously telling me that I have no right to object to being so characterized and I am under an obligation to buy their books regardless? WHY exactly am I supposed to do that? WHY in the world should I support a person who considers me less than and other, to say the least? Who  write books about me and mine that stereotype us , that make us feel like shit, and that contribuet to our dehumanization in the wider culture?  What would that say about my self esteem? What would it say about myself that I, having been insulted and degraded, would now contribute to the degraders' financial surety?  WHY do I need to write this post to explain HOW GODDAMNED FUCKING RIDICULOUS IT IS TO ASK TO ME 
TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE PEOPLE  WHO ARE TRYING TO DEBASE ME?!?!?!!?!?!?!


To make matters worse, some people still seem to be of the opinion that what is said on the the internet is compartmentalized and not relevant to the offline personality of the person. So according to this reasoning, apparently, the views expressed online are unlikely to flavour the characterizations of women and POC and LGBTs in their books. There are others who seem to feel that their online behaviour is a completely separate box from their offline behaviour. So apparently online behaviour is what? Not real?  And meatspace beahviour is the real bit? This argument I consider to be BS of the highest order. Considering the fact that many studies have show that subconcious racism, sexism and homophobia guide our interactions, do you really expect me to believe that consciously, bluntly and subtly expressed racism, sexism and homophobia are NOT going to guide the way we see people? The way we interact with them? The way we write them? Do you think that we are complete and utter ignorant idiots? And are you really, REALLY trying to argue that online behaviour is a separate and unrelated thing to offline behavior? WTF? THEY ARE BOTH ONE PERSON'S BEHAVIOR. THEY ARE ALL PART OF ONE PERSON'S PERSONALITY.


In fact, IMO, online behavior can sometimes be a true indicator of a person's real feelings, in that because they are not looking squarely in the person's face at the time, they feel more comfortable in saying what they really think, because there is less social consequence than there would be a face-to-face confrontation. Behavior online and offline are simply different facets of the same person's personality. In fact, let me say this in a different way. People behave in different ways due to the situation. In meatspace, blatant racism, sexism and homophobia can have,  depending on your location, very direct and negative social consequences directly in your face. We have this illusion of distance online because we are looking at a computer screen and not directly facing someone. Thus, we feel less connected, less at risk and therefore  safer. I mean, seriously, how many times have people used the internets to expose or construct identities that they would never debut in meatspace because of the consequences? But you know what? Unless you are suffering form multiple personality disorder? ITS. STILL. YOU. Why is this so hard to understand? Even in meatspace we don't show all teh facets of our personalities to everyone. We code-switch, dont we? For instance I am not gonna act in certain ways in a business environment that I would act in a more casual environment. There are some things I won't say to my parents that I will say to some friends. I sure as hell won't discuss some topics with certain friends that I will with other friends. Its the same ME, I just show different aspects of my personality depending on the venue that I am in. Ladies and gentlemen? The world wide web is a venue. Not a different person. Your actions and saying on this venue ARE STILL YOURS. You are racist, sexist homophobic online? You are racist, sexist, homophobic offline as well. You just choose WHERE you show your racism, sexism, homophobia.


This is why I stand behind the list. I have the right to refuse to interact with people who consider me shit. I see no goddamn reason for me not have the right to refuse to support monetarily  people who consider me to be shit. And I consider what I see as teh request for me to rise above the piles of FAIL  squared to support these people an act of arrogance, for it priviledges their need to make a living over my need to refuse to engage with people who want to make a living sabotaging me and mine. Fuck That Shit To HELL.

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Change Is Coming To Fandom

On the issue of cultural appropriation, where all this discussion started, the central disconnect I am seeing in the genre is between "this is supposed to be fiction" and authentic cultural representation. Over the past few months, I have tried, both in person and in private correspondence, to call several people on misrepresentation of the "other". Speaking generally, when I tell these people that they are deeply misrepresenting certain groups, the reply is often "but it's supposed to be fiction/I'm taking artistic liberties." When I say, "Yes but it should still be thoughtful and authentic," they retaliate with "well if that's the standard that you demand, and we're not allowed to use our imaginations to make it up, how is anyone ever supposed to write anything that's not their own personal direct experience?" at which point it sometimes gets hostile and they tell me I'm "stifling their creativity" and "against creative expression" and "censoring" them.

The impact this misrepresentation has on the misrepresented groups was, of course, ignored, overlooked, negated, and dismissed. Dismissed is often not even a strong enough word, because in those instances, the message was that I had no right to be making such "demands" or criticism of their writing and their ideas, even when I was a member of the misrepresented group myself. The message was one of, "Who are you to tell me what I may or may not write?"

So it gets all derailed and becomes all about them and their right to write (and I guess publish) these stories laden with offensive stereotypes. Let me be clear- people may write whatever they want, in the privacy of their own homes. But publishing this stuff should not be an "entitlement" in the genre- and that's where I think we are. And when you publish it, you need to be held accountable for it. The status quo privileges the author's right to engage in stereotyping, cultural appropriation and misrepresentation over the reader's right to be authentically portrayed in SF/F and the community's right to have authentic diversity in the genre.MORE
(Bold by me)


See also:

Let Me Tell You a Story

Why do we need stories? In the greater human sense, not in the bestseller, ZOMG Alan Moore is awesome sense. Storytelling is an essential human activity, a paleolithic one, hardwired into us. It's the campfire and the tribal circle, the shaman and the nomad. And while you could argue many motivations for this ritual act, I want to focus on one. One especially applicable to folklore, fairy tales, mythology--and therefor to fantasy and science fiction.

Stories teach us how to survive
. They tell us that our lives can be transcendent, that we can overcome almost anything, no matter how strange, that we can go into the black wood and come out again, that the witch can be burned up in her own oven, that we can find someone who fits a shoe, that the youngest, unloved child will find their way in the world, that those who suffer can become strong, can escape, can find their way into comfort and joy again. That there are secrets, and they are always worth discovering, that there are more and different creatures in the world than we can ever imagine, and not all want to eat us. Stories teach us how to win through, how to perservere, how to live.MORE


See also Racefail Mix: but don't talk about Revolution Which includes the absolutely hilarious and spot on:

Phil Ochs - Love Me, I'm A Liberal
For the white people who think opposing racism is great as long as they don't actually have to work too hard over it. ("I voted for Obama, so nothing I do can be racist" falls under this one.)

I go to the civil rights rallies
And I put down the old D.A.R.
I love Harry and Sidney and Sammy
I hope every colored boy becomes a star
But don't talk about revolution
That's going a little bit too far
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

I cheered when Humphrey was chosen
My faith in the system restored
And I'm glad that the commies were thrown out
From the A.F.L. C.I.O. board
And I love Puerto Ricans and Negros
As long as they don't move next door
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberalMORE
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Note to the colorblind: BE LESS BLIND



In the good things dept.:
[livejournal.com profile] verb_noire, a new publishing venture focused on POC, disabled, LGBT fiction is fundraising. If you can contribute, can you click "Chip In"?
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Of good things that have come out of race fail 09

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The right to speak anonymously constitutionally protected

Pseudonymity, as the Brodie court observed, has been a part of internet culture from the very beginning. Pseudonymity does not yield way to lawlessness because of the concept of social capital. Every person with a livejournal account builds up social capital through discourse. An individual can become a respected herald even with a name like humpmydick or two_left_toes (I made those names up and apologize in advance if these users exist and I am using their handles profanely). In some ways, the pseudonymous nature of internet connections provides a level playing field. Each individual must prove their online worth through their words and deeds and not through any phenotypical characteristic (although backstories have a way of wending themselves in one’s narrative).

Even beyond the inherent double sided nature of an author speaking out against pseudonyms is the false argument that there is no accountability for those who use pseudonyms. The voice behind the pseudonym is well known. I think if I shut down Dear Author today and started up another blog, it wouldn’t be but a few weeks before someone would figure out the voice behind the other blog.

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Nicely constructed timeline:featuring derails


I am not the moderator


A moment of contemplation AKA The Yelling Class


You Can't Spell RaceFail without "I". There be snark in this here LJ


Conservative Fantasy


Publishing By Omission

And, then, of course, there is the recent fail of fails, POC pain as social experiment and info for book writing...

Thanks to all the posters!

[livejournal.com profile] sparkymonster and [livejournal.com profile] delux_vivens weigh in
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via: color_blue and yasaman

The revolution will not be published

That is, when you rely on bureaucratisation and incorporation of high-level leaders into the state and business, once the state decides it doesn’t want to deal with women’s issues any more, you’re basically fucked. And this is what has happened to the Australian women’s movement in the eleven years that John Howard was in power. Women’s government agencies were consistently de-funded, attacked ideologically and dismantled, while sexist policies around abortion, welfare, family, childcare, maternity leave and workplace relations were put into place.

This is also occurring in the environmental movement, where large NGOs are becoming more conservative so as not to lose lobbying access, while ineffective and even dangerous policies are being pursued (e.g. increasing reliance on nuclear energy, carbon trading, bio-fuels, carbon sinks, ‘clean coal’, electricity privatisation).

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The much larger apparatus’ of the state, business and academia seem to appropriate the best energies of the activists whose genuine ingenuity and passion are co-opted into ossified hierarchical structures. And the movement responds by rallying support for those activists because they command unprecedented levels of power and mainstream credibility. Yet that credibility is premised on an overall tokenism about the issue at stake, be it ecological justice, women’s liberation, racial justice, disability rights, or queer rights. The hierarchical accountability structures which authorise that credibility can muzzle the most radical activist (e.g. Peter Garrett).

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But when equal access to elite status becomes the goal of a political movement, it becomes apparent that it is no longer concerned with justice, and it develops a parasitic relationship with the grass-roots of that movement.MORE



Who was Mario Savio?

Mario Savio: Sproul Hall Steps, December 2, 1964


"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!
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From: Links for me and links for you

Stones on my chest


This is what racism is to me as a young Asian woman: racism is hundreds of stones on my chest.

A stone for every time a racial slur is thrown my way.

A stone for every time achieving a goal is harder because of my race.

A stone for every time I am pushed/assumed/written/declared out of the sphere of what is considered Australian.

A stone for my white mother, who said to me last week but I've always thought of you as white.

A stone for my white father, who said to me yesterday CHINA. WORLD POWER. TERROR. FEAR. RESOURCES. INVASION. NOT LIKE US. INSCRUTABLE. MERCILESS. GROUP-THINK. COMMUNISTS!!!!!!! P.S YUM CHA IS DELICIOUS.MORE



Go read the whole thing
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Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

We Wear the Mask

WE wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.

Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.

We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!


rest of post here
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So, Ms. Bear has decided to explode any remaining goodwill that she might have retained from the ongoing MOTHER-OF-ALL-SCI-FI-RACE-FAILS-09.

I think these are the best quotes of the whole thing.

It's my fault because I accepted criticism of my book that I knew to be untrue, that I knew to be based on a shallow and partial reading (a reading of the first chapter of a 160,000-word novel), because I felt it was important to serve as an example of how to engage dialogue on unconscious institutional racism.

I wanted to be part of the solution, and make it a teaching experience, rather than responding with hurt and defensiveness. I wanted the dialogue to be about racism and how to combat it, rather than about me.


...

Let's just all shut up for a little bit and think about what we've learned--those of us of good conscience, anyway, those who really are interested in productive dialogue, those who care about social justice and making sure all voices are heard.


So this author decided to nobly sacrifice herself on the altar of those mean, unreasonable POC in order to serve as an example to one and all of how to engage in dialogue on unconscious institutional racism?. Really? And then you decided that you could have your cake and eat it too by allowing your friends to serve as the defenders of your white virtue, while you lay down and played the martyr? Did you expect a cookie? Did you really think that we were that stupid? Did you not think that we wouldn't demand that you walk the walk as well as talk the talk? Really now? Did you really think that you could get away with building your progressive credibility so easily by walking on our backs? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! My dear child, if that was what you thought? If you though you could pull the wool over our eyes with that pathetic display? You completely underestimated us. You think we haven't seen that and worse before? Like [livejournal.com profile] bossymarmalade said in what is a strong contender of the post of the year award...


You see, I couldn't just decide not to have a conversation about race anymore, because it follows me home. My race issues ARE my home.

We have seen it all before. Heard it all before. So fuck that noise and get off your cross. We need the wood for recycling.

As as for that last bit that I quoted? Let me make one thing clear. Who thehell do you think you are, trying to set the boundaries on this situation? HELL NO, we won't stop talking, and organizing and doing our own shit and critiquing, and shunning and boycotting where necessary, and in general orcing the hell out when we like, as we like. Take your "teaching" and your "dialogue" and shove it. To hell with your "voice", its been heard, and that overmuch, as well. In case you didn't know, WE defined the word "social justice" and we sure as hell know and live its meaning a HELL of lot better than you, Ms. White Matyr for the Cause! We POC are the definers, the people who run this conversation, not the defined, and we refuse to take your shit. We will combat you and your companions BS, all of us, college educated or not, pseudonymously or not. You can't scare all of us off. We will keep coming. AND you know what? We. will. win.


ETA: [livejournal.com profile] ithiliana Niceness:Highly Overrated

[livejournal.com profile] asim brings the smackdown with an edition of Teh R-word in which Martin Luther King calls white progressives on their shit. Funny the stuff that gets confines to a black memory hole, ain't it.

[livejournal.com profile] stoneself Point/Counterpoint

Not enough spoons in the world
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You know, I'd already been avoiding B & N's scifi fantasy pile, due to lack of diversity (only white people are ever in space or in fantasy worlds, apparently) and very, very derivative plots. With this clusterfuck? Excuse me while I simply toss these jackasses overboard and stick to POC writing for the most part from now on. Amazon.com and small presses on the internets will be my friends. We'll build our own shit and actively starve the beast. May it have to eat its own tail.


See [livejournal.com profile] rydra_wong for the latest shenanigans, which are myriad and rage-inducing.

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