renksa fconnects the dots
Apr. 24th, 2008 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pantrysluthttp://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/04/22/today-amanda-marcotte-at-kgb-bar-in-manhattan/#comment-167151
"I was mostly unaware of this issue [Marc*tte-gate] until today. I spent yesterday familiarizing myself with the particulars of “boobgate” aka The Open-Source Boob Project.
[...]
And the response to the criticism (both his, and his supporters) is remarkably parallel to that engendered by what’s happening here.
1. You’re just h8ers! Jealous of what a big name [X]
has in the community (for theferret, it’s the SF
community)
2. You weren’t there when the idea was conceived –
I know that it wasn’t sexism/appropriation] AT ALL!
3. A belief that [X], as a member of a better/more
enlightened community, is above criticism of sexism
or racism
4. And finally, and most profoundly, DEEP ignorance
(or a firm refusal to acknowledge) the culture and
history of the larger society from which the
incident — as much as the proponents would like to
believe — cannot be divorced.
The big difference between that situation and this? Theferret argued and argued and ARGUED but he finally… apologized. And while I don’t think he really gets it (and I continue to think he’s a dick) he did, ultimately, listen. He did apologize. And that’s not happening here.
It needs to."
"I was mostly unaware of this issue [Marc*tte-gate] until today. I spent yesterday familiarizing myself with the particulars of “boobgate” aka The Open-Source Boob Project.
[...]
And the response to the criticism (both his, and his supporters) is remarkably parallel to that engendered by what’s happening here.
1. You’re just h8ers! Jealous of what a big name [X]
has in the community (for theferret, it’s the SF
community)
2. You weren’t there when the idea was conceived –
I know that it wasn’t sexism/appropriation] AT ALL!
3. A belief that [X], as a member of a better/more
enlightened community, is above criticism of sexism
or racism
4. And finally, and most profoundly, DEEP ignorance
(or a firm refusal to acknowledge) the culture and
history of the larger society from which the
incident — as much as the proponents would like to
believe — cannot be divorced.
The big difference between that situation and this? Theferret argued and argued and ARGUED but he finally… apologized. And while I don’t think he really gets it (and I continue to think he’s a dick) he did, ultimately, listen. He did apologize. And that’s not happening here.
It needs to."
