http://blog.philipsteffan.de Your host: Philip Steffan Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:03:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.philipsteffan.de/2013/rocket-rain/#comment-139 Back to the linkspam (16 January 2013) | Geek Feminism Blog Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:13:23 +0000 http://blog.philipsteffan.de/?p=144#comment-139 […] Rocket rain: “The ques­tion for me is, what signi­fi­cance the inci­dents actually occur­ring have for various atten­dees: inci­dents like sexist modera­tion, the reduc­tion of women to head­less bodies, or the hacking of Asher Wolf’s blog. For the majo­rity (I would guess) such events are little things, if they are noti­ced at all. Even if you find them ugly, they don’t tar­nish the ent­ire event. They have the signi­fi­cance of a bro­ken plate in a com­mer­cial kit­chen: it hap­pens, but it’s not signi­fi­cant. It’s just a blip. For many other people, and I include mys­elf here, these events carry a dif­fe­rent weight. They are indi­vi­dual cases of cho­lera on a cruise ship, or dog poop on the hem of the wed­ding dress: the ugly blips makes the over­all situa­tion dan­ge­rous or intolerable.” […]

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