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Shutting down the conversation

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. What’s particularly difficult about writing something such as my posting Girlism? is seeing the gentlemen in the community linking to Halley’s post, but not my refutation. Huzzahs for Halley’s refreshing honesty and blowing the lid off the terrible games we women play. Perpetuating the myth by controlling the links, and thereby controlling […]

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Girlism?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Halley Suitt wrote the following at Blog Sisters in response to the question, “Whatever happened to feminism”: “There is no more feminism,” I explain. Game Over. But it took me a day or two to name the new game. It’s “girlism” — women want to be sexy girls and use all the […]

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Diversity Technology Weblogging

Links at twenty paces

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Christine staged a Blog Debate, during which Ciscley commented about guys being reluctant to move to Moveable Type because it’s popular. She wrote: I think (I *know* in my personal blogging circle and I’m generalizing from there) that most of the people that are uncomfortable with the popularity of MT are guys. It’s like […]

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Diversity Weblogging

Everything to do with her being a woman

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The comments that made me so angry yesterday were attached to a posting Doc Searls wrote. It would seem that a weblogger who works for Microsoft was being parodied, and not in good, gentle fun, either. This bit of school yard bullying was further compounded by an article by Andrew Orlowski in the Guardian. He […]

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Skin deep

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dorothea is on a roll! And aside from the fact that she rolled over my foot (in the nicest possible way) I like what she has to say. I, also, want nothing more than to be valued because of me, of what I am, rather than how I look. When people look […]