Galactus

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  1. Galactus added a post in a topic "Why are you so angry?" Anita Sarkeesian, Gamergate, Sad Puppies, and online harassment   

    https://storify.com/garaden/debunking-misinformation

    Here's some discussion RE: How to approach harassers by a couple of different people.
  2. Galactus added a post in a topic Feminism - Distractingly Sexy Edition   

    This is just One Of Those Random Observations things:

    I have a dog. I walk it a lot. (as you do) sometimes children come forward and want to say hi/pet the dog. (since he's a good dog I usually let them) what I've noticed recently though is that the vast, vast majority of kids who do that are girls. Like, probably more than 90%.

    It feels really weird, since I haven't really associated being fond of animals as being a gendered thing.
  3. Galactus added a post in a topic Best Arthurian Lit?   

    T.H. White is arguably THE modern version. Mists is OK for what it does, but has issues (and depending on your views you might not want to give MZB's estate your money)

    I'm not very fond of "historical" Arthur, as I feel they kind of miss the point.
  4. Galactus added a post in a topic Worst Presents Ever   

    Aww, I read this as "Worst Presidents ever" and was going to put a vote down...
  5. Galactus added a post in a topic Greece IV - Yanis, We Hardly Knew Ye   

    http://blog-imfdirect.imf.org/2015/07/09/greece-past-critiques-and-the-path-forward/?hootPostID=8299b6670cea64b9daad8b21e9a85fe7

    IMF POV. Seems... Surprisingly positive?
  6. Galactus added a post in a topic WOT questions, advice needed and given.   

    Katherine Kerr's Deverry Cycle (which is roughly contemporary with WOT; I think?) had a few homosexual characters, IIRC. (not that they were neccessarily treated in an enlgihtened fashion, mind)
  7. Galactus added a post in a topic WOT questions, advice needed and given.   

    RE: WOT.

    I think it is "feminist" in that it clearly tries to discuss gender-issues in a fantasy context. I don't think it *succeeds*, mind, but he's clearly trying. Now, another factor is that it is clearly written by a man who got his grounding in feminism in the 60's and 70's. He's updated some, but the basics is a fairly old style of ideas that were swishing around at the time, and a lot of which has since become outdated or superceded.

    Add to this the fact that, y'know, he's a man, he's not neccessarily the greatest of writers, and a lot of unexamined prejudices and you end up with the weird soup that WOT is. I'd still classify it as a femnist work though: Just a bad one. ("feminist" is not a seal of quality, or even of sanity)
  8. Galactus added a post in a topic Teacher kills rabbit   
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