Internet Readalong
Feb. 18th, 2010 01:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
effex* There have been two major outbreaks of the Tone Argument on my reading list this week - once over at ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
scans_daily: Why Anti-Oppression Is Serious Business (WARNING - may be triggering for survivors of assault and abuse) and again over at Feministe: Dear USians on the Internet. Folks, this is not on.
So. Firstly - I'm in support with the mods at Scans Daily and Feministe and appreciate the work they've been doing on this. Secondly - if you need a refresher on the tone argument (or don't know what it is), check out The Privilege of Politeness over at The Angry Black Woman: At the core of this expectation of politeness is the idea that the POC in question should teach the offender what was wrong with their statement. Because in my experience what is meant by “be polite” is “teach me”, teach me why you’re offended by this, teach me how to be racially sensitive and the bottom line is that it is no one’s responsibility to teach anyone else. And even when POC are as polite as possible there is still hostility read into the words because people are so afraid of being called racist that they would rather go on offending than deal with the hard road of confronting their own prejudices.
Bottom line (paraphrased from all over the internet) - if you step on someone's foot (or punch them in the face), even by accident, it is not their job to politely ask you to stop (and then explain why it hurt).
* This was linked in the Feministe comments and is pretty awesome (as is the Canadian, Please vid it's a response to. If you haven't seen it yet, check it out!):
*the_future_modernes has a lovely long list of links up, all releated to POC and gender identity. The South Asian and Arab American Comedians vid she has embedded is well worth the watch.
* A small plane just crashed into a building in Austin.
* Viacimorene - Professionalism = Selling Your Soul: A Feminist Rant on "The Devil Wears Prada": So here's my problem with the movie: I couldn't see anything she did wrong. I was watching very carefully the second time around, and almost every "soul-selling" step that the heroine took seemed perfectly reasonable and defensible.
* Amazing pop-up book is amazing.
* Speaking of art - I've really fallen for the work of David Weidman. Look at those colors.
* Have y'all see Saving Face? Because you really, really should - it's an amazing film.
* Over on TNC's blog, Adam Serwer guest posts an incredibly eloquent essay on Bioshock and Bioshock 2. I don't normally go for first-person shooters, but. Damn. (geez, I haven't really looked at the blog this week, seems like there's a whole slew of guest bloggers. I've got some catching up to do...)
* Looking to put together a graphic design setup on the cheap (and by 'cheap' I mean 'free')? The folks at Paper Leaf can set you up. And while we're talking free design goodness, you should absolutely check out the exljbris Font Foundry. Oh, Fontin, love of my life.
* I've got some great webcomics linked in my sidebar ------->
but I'd like to rec SFEER Theory and The Not So Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal in particular - they're both just starting up and are wonderful things by wonderful people.
* Music - Tracy Chapman, The Tea Party, A Goofy Movie Soundtrack:
'Stand Out' is one of the best songs to ever come out of a Disney Movie and you'll be hard pressed to convince me otherwise.
scans_daily: Why Anti-Oppression Is Serious Business (WARNING - may be triggering for survivors of assault and abuse) and again over at Feministe: Dear USians on the Internet. Folks, this is not on.So. Firstly - I'm in support with the mods at Scans Daily and Feministe and appreciate the work they've been doing on this. Secondly - if you need a refresher on the tone argument (or don't know what it is), check out The Privilege of Politeness over at The Angry Black Woman: At the core of this expectation of politeness is the idea that the POC in question should teach the offender what was wrong with their statement. Because in my experience what is meant by “be polite” is “teach me”, teach me why you’re offended by this, teach me how to be racially sensitive and the bottom line is that it is no one’s responsibility to teach anyone else. And even when POC are as polite as possible there is still hostility read into the words because people are so afraid of being called racist that they would rather go on offending than deal with the hard road of confronting their own prejudices.
Bottom line (paraphrased from all over the internet) - if you step on someone's foot (or punch them in the face), even by accident, it is not their job to politely ask you to stop (and then explain why it hurt).
* This was linked in the Feministe comments and is pretty awesome (as is the Canadian, Please vid it's a response to. If you haven't seen it yet, check it out!):
*
the_future_modernes has a lovely long list of links up, all releated to POC and gender identity. The South Asian and Arab American Comedians vid she has embedded is well worth the watch.* A small plane just crashed into a building in Austin.
* Via
cimorene - Professionalism = Selling Your Soul: A Feminist Rant on "The Devil Wears Prada": So here's my problem with the movie: I couldn't see anything she did wrong. I was watching very carefully the second time around, and almost every "soul-selling" step that the heroine took seemed perfectly reasonable and defensible.* Amazing pop-up book is amazing.
* Speaking of art - I've really fallen for the work of David Weidman. Look at those colors.
* Have y'all see Saving Face? Because you really, really should - it's an amazing film.
* Over on TNC's blog, Adam Serwer guest posts an incredibly eloquent essay on Bioshock and Bioshock 2. I don't normally go for first-person shooters, but. Damn. (geez, I haven't really looked at the blog this week, seems like there's a whole slew of guest bloggers. I've got some catching up to do...)
* Looking to put together a graphic design setup on the cheap (and by 'cheap' I mean 'free')? The folks at Paper Leaf can set you up. And while we're talking free design goodness, you should absolutely check out the exljbris Font Foundry. Oh, Fontin, love of my life.
* I've got some great webcomics linked in my sidebar ------->
but I'd like to rec SFEER Theory and The Not So Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal in particular - they're both just starting up and are wonderful things by wonderful people.
* Music - Tracy Chapman, The Tea Party, A Goofy Movie Soundtrack:
'Stand Out' is one of the best songs to ever come out of a Disney Movie and you'll be hard pressed to convince me otherwise.
