Posts by Emma Hart
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Isabel Hitchings,
St Richie's winky?
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Megan Wegan,
Dude. I gave you Richard Kahui and Richie McCaw, and you're holding a grudge?
Okay. So we have one character called Megan now...
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
And I suspect many Western feminists would be (or should be) very leery of swinging into Mumbai and giving Indian women a good scolding for not being sufficiently "authentic".
SlutWalk was basically a franchise operation. So the organisers of any particular SlutWalk were always locals.
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Richard Wain,
Which is lovely but not at all what SlutWalk was about. And seriously: *giggle* and "pwetty"? We couldn't engage on the issue without demeaning the people involved? I mean, there are two messages:
- stop blaming victims for being raped, and
- the way a woman dresses is irrelevant to your chances of copping off with her
Which one of those is "tearing down feminism"?ETA: And yes, SlutWalk is culturally-specific. That's because it's a protest against an aspect of Western culture. Ergo, it may not translate well in other cultural contexts. Why should it have to?
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Megan Wegan,
I just assume people can ignore me and keep talking about the important stuff, though.
Yeah, me too. But as this is a discussion about discussions, we actually haven't even gone off topic. But yeah, sometimes we get carried away and forget about the people who aren't talking. But on the other hand, I'd hate to stifle the 'running off on tangents' and see threads just choke and die. And this one is also excluding people by the speed at which it moves.
(Megan and I MET on PA. This is how we know each other. The thriving state of our sidekick/bitch relationship is just a testament to this community.)
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Megan Wegan,
W00t! This is fun!
Want to find yourself in a situation where Megan has pretty much unbridled power over you? Ask me how!
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Megan Wegan,
How far down that road do you want to go, my love?
Goddammit.
Megan is lovely. Believe everything she says.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Megan Wegan,
Dude! I left it alone, couldn't you?
Oh, that is NOT what I heard...
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Up Front: Life on Mars, in reply to Russell Brown,
Indeedy. That's a very successful magazine story.
I was so happy with it. I was hoping I'd see Jane at SlutWalk to thank her for it, she did an utterly fabulous job. And I sound all cogent and intelligent and just the right degree of trampy. Which, yay, because that was the first time I'd done an interview where I could be paraphrased rather than directly quoted.
Chch Arts Centre "too frail to even fix"?
I read this in The Star on the Weekend, and I've been simply ignoring it, because I cannot comprehend it. How can we possibly not have the Arts Centre? How? Oh fuck, see, now I'm crying.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Isabel Hitchings,
Two pages, so much good stuff. What Andre said. And also, about the quickest way to make a dick of yourself (Alright, just one of a myriad) is to get all offended on behalf of a groupd you don't belong to.
Sure, but having said that, we get pretty bored of having to explain these concepts to people who should know better. And from my perspective as a feminist blogger, few of the sites I write for are 101 sites, and that's clearly stated - so it gets irritating when someone crashes into a conversation with no understanding of what, say, rape culture is.
And this is where Megan and I will differ. I have this basic utilitarian approach to pretty much everything: what do I want, how do I get it, is what I'm doing helping me towards that goal? Works on the internet, works in bars...
So yeah, I spend a lot of time here explaining what terms mean, words I've used for so long I didn't twig to them needing explaining. And I'll keep doing that until they have to prise my keyboard from my arthritic fingers, because what I want is for people to understand. They don't have to agree, I just want them to understand.
It also means being gracious when nice people make mistakes, because everybody does. I do. You have to give people room to take Megan's second option. (Yes, yes, I just giggled smuttily.)
But while I understand the weariness with the explaining, I can't understand the point in pushing people out, in excluding them from conversations. All of these things - mansplaining, tone argument, etc - were originated to further discussion. Now we've come to a point where they're being used to shut it down. And shutting down conversation is bad, m'kay?