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Sat, Aug. 22nd, 2009, 06:52 pm

[personal profile] inalasahl: Saturday, August 22, 2009


  • [livejournal.com profile] esorlehcar: laurashapiro has an interesting post on - A friend recently commented that she sometimes misses the days when fandom seemed like this shiny, egalitarian place where issues surrounding race (and gender, to a lesser extent) just didn't exist and she didn't realize it was an illusion courtesy of her own privilege, and it struck me how telling a comment that was: For a whole lot of people, the anger that their fandoms are being "polluted" or "ruined" by this kind of discussion stems from a deep-seated conviction that these problems didn't exist in fandom before some troublemakers started talking about them, -
    (tags: race fandom privilege)

Sun, Aug. 23rd, 2009, 07:37 pm
[identity profile] losyark.livejournal.com

There's an interesting in-comments discussion going on over at Hardcore Nerdity about the appropriateness of Wonder Woman as a mascott for a charity for abused spouses.

http://www.hardcorenerdity.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2239098%3ABlogPost%3A72080&page=1#comments

Thought you may be interested. Thanks!