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A good day for blogposts; here are two that I can't resist linking to on the off chance that'll get them even one more reader.
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matociquala on writers writing the Other and how not to be stupid, insensitive, trapped by your hegemonic privilege, &c. when doing so. I'm not a writer, and I'm not likely ever to be one, but I found this post and its comments worth reading as a reader, and as a generic human being. Especially in conjunction with the thread started by nojojojo's comment here.
naamah_darling on being Politically Correct. This one had me near bursting with laughter, which is I think generally the best state of being to be in when learning how not to be, in her felicitous phrase, a plug of congealed, bituminous iguana semen. There's also the added bonus of my quote of the year so far in the comments, from angry_geologist: “'Politically correct' is what bullies call it when their former victims start to stand up for themselves.”
ETA and more; defensive is as defensive does, but cultures are not on a level playing field, and agonising over [perm from] white, male, heterosexual, able-bodied, cis-gendered, straight, anglophonic guilt is unhelpful.
matociquala on writers writing the Other and how not to be stupid, insensitive, trapped by your hegemonic privilege, &c. when doing so. I'm not a writer, and I'm not likely ever to be one, but I found this post and its comments worth reading as a reader, and as a generic human being. Especially in conjunction with the thread started by nojojojo's comment here.naamah_darling on being Politically Correct. This one had me near bursting with laughter, which is I think generally the best state of being to be in when learning how not to be, in her felicitous phrase, a plug of congealed, bituminous iguana semen. There's also the added bonus of my quote of the year so far in the comments, from angry_geologist: “'Politically correct' is what bullies call it when their former victims start to stand up for themselves.”ETA and more; defensive is as defensive does, but cultures are not on a level playing field, and agonising over [perm from] white, male, heterosexual, able-bodied, cis-gendered, straight, anglophonic guilt is unhelpful.