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Oct. 28th, 2009 11:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kiki_engSome of the brouhaha over sexism, racism and ableism in the upcoming Stargate: Universe series (a.k.a. Gatefail 2009) has been wonderfully explained and articulated by Cate. It's worth checking out. Familiarity with the franchise is not required; the issues at hand go far beyond Stargate and the specifics of this fuck-up are well explained for strangers. (The post contains episode and series spoilers for Universe.)
I had not quite realised previously that Jimmy Carter was awesome. He is. I say this because of this: Losing my religion for equality - Jimmy Carter on misogyny and religion.
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cereta wrote On rape and men a few months ago. Her livejournal post has, to date, 4262 comments. She wrote about the systemic nature of rape in our culture and the need for a strong counter voice in our society, for men to tell stories to other men about being a decent human being. There are 26 pages of comments of people telling those stories, and stories of rape, assault and abuse, thanking her for posting, people not understanding the issue at hand or their privilege and others patiently explaining it to them, over and over.
I think I spent a month wandering around thinking about this - about consent issues, about my need as a decent human being to make sure that others are okay, about my own experience with assault, about all the little things that shape the world of women and make it not the same world that men inhabit, about fear, about entitlement, about the people who've tried to keep me safe, and about the need for change.
Joss Whedon's Equality Now speech is a nice bit of rhetoric on why he writes strong women characters. It's just good.
I had not quite realised previously that Jimmy Carter was awesome. He is. I say this because of this: Losing my religion for equality - Jimmy Carter on misogyny and religion.
cereta wrote On rape and men a few months ago. Her livejournal post has, to date, 4262 comments. She wrote about the systemic nature of rape in our culture and the need for a strong counter voice in our society, for men to tell stories to other men about being a decent human being. There are 26 pages of comments of people telling those stories, and stories of rape, assault and abuse, thanking her for posting, people not understanding the issue at hand or their privilege and others patiently explaining it to them, over and over.I think I spent a month wandering around thinking about this - about consent issues, about my need as a decent human being to make sure that others are okay, about my own experience with assault, about all the little things that shape the world of women and make it not the same world that men inhabit, about fear, about entitlement, about the people who've tried to keep me safe, and about the need for change.
Joss Whedon's Equality Now speech is a nice bit of rhetoric on why he writes strong women characters. It's just good.
