My Readers Rock :D

I finally had an insomnia filled night to read the infamous article everyone was losing their cookies over at the end of July. As I said, my contribution was two-fold (I think that is becoming my new favorite word. Someone remind me to check all of the pubs I’m working on to make sure I don’t keep saying that in every paragraph): 1) I filed the article away for later reading and 2) I took a large quote from the article’s author’s blog that was offensive when alerted that my blog had been linked to hers as a source of information about current issues she should already have been aware of (and probably was). I had meant to get to the article itself while traveling or on down time, but as everyone who flocked to that thread as part of the fallout knows, I had my own stuff to deal with and suddenly, another white mainstream liberal feminist saying that intersectionality was the doom of all things feminist, seemed trivial and redundant. And anything I had to say about it, seemed equally useless in the face of such privilege laden bigotry. Honestly, anyone who says the quoted material from my previous post, follows it with a flippant dismissal of the AM controversy, and then compares themselves to Eminem “accept [she] like[s] women of course” falls under the Andrea Smith, quit yelling at people who don’t get it conversation that bfp started. (And trust me when I tell you it is taking everything in me to keep from deconstructing that last point.) Nevertheless, the feminist blogosphere was rocked by her comments and her position as someone with access to publishing and film credits. So I wanted to take this moment to issue a thank you to all my readers who kept everyone up to speed on the issue and kept the conversation largely constructive while yours truly took a fleeting public moment to come undone. It’s great to know that despite the occasional behind the scenes freakishness here at the spot, most lurkers and regular commenters alike have developed a rapport here in which discussion stays on point and engaged at every turn. You all rock!

Oh, and I am declaring it Lurker Thursday. So lurkers, if there is something you wanna talk about, now is your chance.