Posts by Emma Hart
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Like, the 80's. Reclaiming The Night, All Men Are Rapists, and all that. I guess you had to be there.
I was there in the 90s, and unifeminism put me off any kind of feminism for over a decade.
But.
Uni-aged people are not known for their appreciation of subtleties and how complicated issues can be. They tend to grab an ideology and cling to it - and it doesn't really matter what that ideology is. Analysis comes later, with age and space and perhaps feeling more secure about yourself. Jackie has admitted doing something then she's not proud of now. I've got a whole bunch of those somethings*: doesn't everyone?
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Hmm. Now I guess I'll have to promise not to
pinch any bottoms.Just ensure you engage in equal-opportunity bottom pinching. That's what I'd do.
If, y'know, people set up a fund so I could commute to Thursday drinks...
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Jeanette Winterson got deranked too, I assume?
Why, yes. That was the first name on the list that made me go 'oh for...'. Not the last.
Otherwise this column would have been Brokeback Amazon, or Amazon is my Washpot, or something.
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I'd go as Craig. Now, where's my top hat and monacle?
Dude, that's Tom.
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Two minutes after posting this, I had a 'reply' to my email to Amazon. It was a duplicate of the last one linked to in the column, and ignores every one of my specific questions. They're really not helping themselves as far as the PR disaster goes.
So here, have this instead.
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First thought: so stuff-all people watched it? Weren't one-day matches introduced because no-one watched test matches?
Then: Oh.
Graeme: assimilated. Tick.
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See, I've no problem with the behaviours, but the word 'ladette' really gets on my tits. As if, if you drink and behave in a raucous fashion it somehow makes you male.
'Girl' doesn't bother me, but 'lady' drives me buggy. I rather like the way different words annoy different people.
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Eve as I recall was all about how women really are worthy of maximum contempt.
You Lie Down with Dogs and the ever so subtle I'd Rather Be a Man . Eve struck me as the kind of album a fifteen year old boy would write after breaking up with his first girlfriend.
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But, but, punctuation humour!
Okay.
Do you lean more towards one approach (heavily/lightly/not moderated) than another?
I really am a moderation moderate. And I think the appropriate degree of moderation varies with the type of community - those that deal with more sensitive issues may need heavier moderation. Fora that are based around a very specific topic may want to police on-topicness more than others where the discussion can be more general and organic.
I mean, the way we moderate and what we moderate for at Bardic Web is very different from the way Public Address works. There, we strongly discourage discussion of religion or politics, because they become wedge issues and distract from the central business of the site.
I love peer pressure 'moderation', and that's what happens here. It requires, though, having a healthy community already established to set the example for noobs. Seeding is great for this - you have a few people you trust come in and start discussions before you open to the general public. Not only do you then have an example set, but also you don't have that 'empty shop' feel.
Karma point moderation enforces the community you already have. Not naming any Iwiblogkaes in particular, but they won't fix something that's borken.
I have to go organise an Easter Egg hunt now, I'll come back later and see if I have my thoughts a bit better organised.
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I wonder how much of a Super 14 player's salary goes on body waxing?
They only do it for the aerodynamics, Rachel.
Sarcasm, btw.