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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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[antikythera.livejournal.com]

Did she take it out of the Amazon review too? Or does she need to tell Amazon to take it down?

[qthewetsprocket.livejournal.com]

Hooray! That's the best you can ask for, really.

(Ditto what Antikythera asked about Amazon, though.)

[hnpcc]

Hm. I'm not sure that "because she created an anti-racism sidejournal that was not explicitly exclusive to white people, it just started out as explicitly unwelcoming to People of Colour, and currently it only frames itself as a non-safe space for PoC, so that's all right then" is any better myself, but if you're happy with it.

I'm assuming this is all fallout from RaceFail? Otherwise I'm kind of finding the whole thing bizarre. I initially assumed you must have had some run in IRL or something, but later comments made me wonder.

(And really, 'explicitly unwelcoming to POC'?)

LizBee versus Chicks Dig Time Lords

[xanthian-kpd.livejournal.com]

LizBee may have recanted her misstatement, but since it is still there to read, just with strikeout lines through it, that doesn't change the insult much. Her entire hatchet job on your essay entry in the book remains.

By proximity, the implication that it was because of your entry that she marked the entire collection "get it from the library" also hangs in the air.

I'm guessing such hostilities are quite normal in the Doctor Who fan community.

I'm so glad I never liked the Doctor Who episodes in the first place and so escaped such debates over minute fractions of the total series.

As for your "masculine" bluntness, talk.bizarre or any other part of Usenet evokes such bluntness in participants, and you participated there for a long time before more interactive social networking sites came into existence.

Having that bluntness move with you into other social interactions isn't very surprising, from my vantage point.

Nor do I see it as a flaw in your behavior.

xanthian.