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Mon, Oct. 1st, 2007, 12:36 pm

robin_anne_reid: What do you mean "we" white man? (Tonto to the Lone Ranger, in an old joke) - Here, I return to my efforts to make a series of personal attacks on innocent white male academics who are really nice guys and have lots of female friends and of course would never intentionally exclude women, really they wouldn't. -
(tags: fandom race gender)

robin_anne_reid: Sexism, Round 10,087 (my personal tally) - I am noting a real pattern of the male academics (not all but a majority) and some female academics deflecting any questions of institutional gender exclusion/marginalization that might affect us all -
(tags: fanac gender)

metamiri: Cheerio - Perhaps the problem is that we may well hold up democratic, open discussion as the ideal, but that notion is invariably in tension with the sense that some of us "own" the rights to things -
(tags: otw fandom)

Psst. Did you mean to make the date December?

HAHA NO,and in fact I corrected that TWICE while posting!

and lol, the header says "1th" instead of "1st". :D

Could you link to this please in your next post, about pairing labels on stories: http://bluflamingo.livejournal.com/31268.html

Thanks!

Thank you

I have a post about women in 60s SF, and marriage as a threat to equality... I promise it makes sense in context! ;-)

http://trobadora.livejournal.com/134810.html

thank you! And interesting read :D