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[dreamer_easy]

lizbee has now corrected her review of Chicks Dig Time Lords to remove the untrue statement. I appreciate her honesty.

While I was poking around in my earliest postings at seeingred, I came across my thoughts on Martha and the "Mammy" stereotype. I made many blunders in those early days, and said things which could fairly be described as insensitive and ignorant; so it was reassuring to re-read that particular posting and the discussion in the comments, and discover I hadn't made a complete hash of things. :)

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[hnpcc]

Ah, OK. Makes more sense to me now (obviously I haven't read the disclaimer recently enough to remember it).

Racewank '07 aka Marthagate partly began when I rudely contradicted someone there, someone I'd met IRL and knew was white - but everyone assumed I was dissing a FOC!

And ditto previous comment.

I would like to say I try not to assume race or gender or anything - but of course I do. Everyone speaks with an Australian accent in my mind (unless I've met them IRL - then they sound like themselves) for starters. At least two people I thought were male were female and vice versa (pre-1997 women posting tended to have very gender neutral online names (well, where I hung out!), myself included. Not least to cut down on the "wanna hook up?" e-mails, which God, no).

At the moment I seem to visualise people as their icon - which makes at least one of my flist a Womble. An Australian accented one.