Not Fandom

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This is everything labeled Not_Fandom on my Delicious as of today. Some of the reaction posts to the E. Moon debacle are in here because the point of them was less specific to Moon or Wiscon than to the political point.

• Morality Quiz/Test your Morals, Values & Ethics - Your Morals.Org

The quizzes--there are lots of them--that are discussed in the TED talk bookmarked below.

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• Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives | Video on TED.com

Interesting quick run through of his 5-part moral orientation theory. He is focusing on a very American-defined liberal vs conservative dichotomy with a slight recognition of the libertarian outliers. Of course American liberals are centrists by Canadian standards and American conservatives would be allowed to be the loony wing of the Conservative party, there to keep the haters and bigots happy (Jason Kenny). What the video doesn't get into is how the two pronged liberals can talk to the five pronged conservatives in a meaningful way.

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• YouTube - BIJLI

via Muslimah Media Watch a look at the life of Bijli, a Pakistani-American trans woman in New York. She says she is not educated, but she has a clear-eyed and sophisticated way of looking at her life and the things that could have been different if she'd been born with a female body. In Urdu and some English with English subtitles.

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• This is the title of a typical incendiary blog post - Coyote Crossing

This is a bookmark badly and inaccurately summing up the blog post while reinforcing the taggers' ideologies that they believed they saw reflected in the original post.

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• The Political Compass

It's interesting, but it's still just a quiz with all the limitations inherent. I wanted to answer It Depends to some of the questions, and I don't think the four possible responses really allows for the situationally specific thinking as opposed to ideology. So it measures your ideology not what you'd really think or do in a given situation. Still very interesting to see how clumped up the US politicians are and how the rest of the world is not.

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• Cumberland Advisors - Market Commentary

The short and pithy explanation of the US mortgage mess.

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• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Who do I punch?

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• Ask Me Anything: Standards of Beauty – Sugarbutch Chronicles

Interesting. The author is ruminating on the activist/artistic boundaries of her writing re: body type, race, etc. I'm not sure I agree with the idea that vagueness serves some sort of unifying purpose in body descriptions. I'm not sure that depicting un-vaguely non-standard body types is objectifying by default. I honestly felt like she's rationalizing a bit. The comments seem to reveal a community that assumes that erotica is about writing what you personally find sexually arousing. Er, really? I mean, it can be, but it can also be a little more abstract than that. (Granted, this author is writing from her own life.) Also, if one more privileged person barfs all over the comments to a post like this with write what you know as their slogan and stop politicizing my fun as their rallying cry, I will scream. It is funny that she thinks it's only lesbians who harsh the squee. I thought it was everyone on Dreamwidth.

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• Tiger Beatdown › 13 Ways of Looking at Liz Lemon

A rumination on seeing feminism as only part of the much greater fight for greater freedom and equality. “Okay, so here’s me. Privileged in basically every way. White, middle-class, cis, straight, first-world American, whatever. Except, I’m a lady. That’s the one way I might be oppressed a little. So here’s me standing in my privilege.” I walked over and stood in the doorway to my study. “Here’s me in feminism. In the doorway.” I stepped over the threshold and into my study, which is a much larger room. “And here’s me in the entire rest of the world, dealing with all the ways people have their humanity denied, dealing with concern and solidarity with basically everybody who is not privileged. And realizing there are way more people without full, uncompromised privilege than with it, and that this is kind of an essential fact of the human experience. Dealing with, like, the experience of being human on Planet Earth.”

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• Shakesville: How to Fuck

What it says on the tin.

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• Etched with Soma's Pen - Dissimilation

"I started off as one of Elizabeth Moon's ideal minority people, you guys. Since I think most of you had more sense than me, let me lay out what that was like, cause this is what she's demanding other people do so as not to harsh her mellow with our differences; I guess this is what she thinks people like me should just agree to do so she doesn't have to "bend over backwards". This is what she thinks my nephew's life as a brown American should be like." I have qualms reccing posts like this. People like me, who have the privilege of dispassion over issues like this, can become tourists of other people's pain. This post is viscerally affecting and personal and private, and I think it's a thing that should be read with respect. It's easy to abstractly talk about the entire issue (immigration, diversity, intolerance, assimilation, group-identity boundary policing, etc.) and never achieve empathy or sympathy for the people who don't have the privilege of dispassion or abstraction.

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• Jim C. Hines - Open Letter to Elizabeth Moon

"You mentioned the “responsibilities of citizenship in a non-Muslim country.” But this is a Muslim country. It is also a Jewish country. It is an atheist country. It is a country of Quakers and a country of Mormons, a country of Catholics and a country of Baptists. (Even, I have no doubt, a country of Jedi.)"

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• Rachel Maines | Technology Historian | Big Think

Interview covering Technology Historian Rachel Maines' first book on female sexuality and vibrators and her latest on hedonizing technology. Put the two together and you have something that is speaking about all the parts of Western society that fandom fits into and grows out of without ever mentioning fandom. After hearing about extreme ironing, you'll never think fandom is weird again. Major accessibility failure in that the questions she is answering are text only on the video.

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• slacktivist: Please forgive me for the actions of extremists I have never met who commit acts of violence that I have never advocated

This is brilliant. (Comments contain the expected writhing acrobatics of people who will do anything to not get it.)

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• YouTube - The Colbert Report ::: Remix feat Lawrence Lessig (Eclectic Method Mix)
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