Comments on: On the Alas Controversy http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_426 Because we care about stuff Fri, 16 May 2008 20:12:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: tekanji http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_426#comment-18344 tekanji Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:55:51 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_426#comment-18344 No problem. I had seen the post, but this was the first time the trackback sent, so I was good with letting it through even though it was an old post. :) Be sure to let me know when you're site is finished with it's overhaul! No problem. I had seen the post, but this was the first time the trackback sent, so I was good with letting it through even though it was an old post. :)

Be sure to let me know when you’re site is finished with it’s overhaul!

]]> By: Victoria Marinelli http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_426#comment-18285 Victoria Marinelli Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:24:28 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_426#comment-18285 Eeek. Sorry about that last trackback - I was editing the post in question and didn't realize it would automatically send! But anyway, I appreciate this post (and the Shrub.com site as a whole), and look forward to having my link to you restored once I'm done with my site's overhaul. (Part of what I was, in fact, in the midst of when that long-ago post sent the errant trackback. Ah well.) Best wishes - Victoria Eeek. Sorry about that last trackback - I was editing the post in question and didn’t realize it would automatically send!

But anyway, I appreciate this post (and the Shrub.com site as a whole), and look forward to having my link to you restored once I’m done with my site’s overhaul. (Part of what I was, in fact, in the midst of when that long-ago post sent the errant trackback. Ah well.)

Best wishes - Victoria

]]> By: Vortex(t) :: Voicing Silence/ Silencing Voice: On technology, racism, pornography, and good, old-fashioned feminist internecine warfare. http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_426#comment-18268 Vortex(t) :: Voicing Silence/ Silencing Voice: On technology, racism, pornography, and good, old-fashioned feminist internecine warfare. Mon, 08 Jan 2007 05:02:42 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_426#comment-18268 [...] * Note 11/5/06: Link to tekanji’s post referenced here has been edited, reflecting that the article is no longer available at Alas, for some excellent reasons she discusses here. Tags: Adrienne Rich, feminism, Jennifer Saginor, Literary, memoir, Minnesota, Overtly Political, pornography, privilege, racism, sex industry, silencing, The Past is Not Dead, Web/Tech [...] […] * Note 11/5/06: Link to tekanji’s post referenced here has been edited, reflecting that the article is no longer available at Alas, for some excellent reasons she discusses here. Tags: Adrienne Rich, feminism, Jennifer Saginor, Literary, memoir, Minnesota, Overtly Political, pornography, privilege, racism, sex industry, silencing, The Past is Not Dead, Web/Tech […]

]]> By: The SmackDog Chronicles » Blog Archive » The “Alas, a Porn Portal” Controversy: A Bibliography http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_426#comment-4189 The SmackDog Chronicles » Blog Archive » The “Alas, a Porn Portal” Controversy: A Bibliography Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:02:32 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_426#comment-4189 [...] http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_426 [...] […] http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_426 […]

]]> By: stormcloud http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_426#comment-3496 stormcloud Sun, 15 Oct 2006 11:45:38 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_426#comment-3496 Thank you. It is comforting to know that integrity is not a lost art. Thank you.
It is comforting to know that integrity is not a lost art.

]]> By: earlbecke http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_426#comment-3371 earlbecke Sat, 14 Oct 2006 17:48:56 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_426#comment-3371 <blockquote>I do wish that I had been informed; I didn’t start my blogging spot until after the deal seems to have gone through.</blockquote> Yeah, if I'd started blogging after he sold the site and nobody told me, I'd be much more upset about it. If I'd been asked to guest-blog now (and he did ask me to return and do a second month at some point, so that was a reasonable way to view it), knowing what's going on, I'd decline, so, given that, I thought there was no reason to leave my posts up just because the situation was different in the past. If that's at all coherent.

I do wish that I had been informed; I didn’t start my blogging spot until after the deal seems to have gone through.

Yeah, if I’d started blogging after he sold the site and nobody told me, I’d be much more upset about it. If I’d been asked to guest-blog now (and he did ask me to return and do a second month at some point, so that was a reasonable way to view it), knowing what’s going on, I’d decline, so, given that, I thought there was no reason to leave my posts up just because the situation was different in the past. If that’s at all coherent.

]]> By: Winter http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_426#comment-3343 Winter Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:26:44 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_426#comment-3343 The internet is so suffused with horrific websites that I doubt any of us can remain "pure," as long as we continue to blog we will in some way be implicated in something nasty somewhere. The whole Alas thing has made me think about this issue as well. The internet is so suffused with horrific websites that I doubt any of us can remain “pure,” as long as we continue to blog we will in some way be implicated in something nasty somewhere. The whole Alas thing has made me think about this issue as well.

]]> By: Maia http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_426#comment-3321 Maia Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:28:14 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_426#comment-3321 It sucks that you didn't know when you were guest blogging tenkanji. I did know before I started guest blogging again. I don't know if that would have made a difference in my response. I've written a long rant over at Alas, but I'm a little bit nervous about it. I'm worried that it comes across more as an argument than as an explanation of my own opinion. I totally understand why you see keeping your posts as being associated with what is being promoted. But that's not really my analysis/reaction Although that could be at least partly because I'm on blogspot at the moment, they host a fascist website that has a picture of the grave of my friend's mother - rejoicing that she died because she was a jew. I don't know what their profit model is, but I'm pretty sure I don't want to. It sucks that you didn’t know when you were guest blogging tenkanji. I did know before I started guest blogging again. I don’t know if that would have made a difference in my response.

I’ve written a long rant over at Alas, but I’m a little bit nervous about it. I’m worried that it comes across more as an argument than as an explanation of my own opinion. I totally understand why you see keeping your posts as being associated with what is being promoted. But that’s not really my analysis/reaction

Although that could be at least partly because I’m on blogspot at the moment, they host a fascist website that has a picture of the grave of my friend’s mother - rejoicing that she died because she was a jew. I don’t know what their profit model is, but I’m pretty sure I don’t want to.

]]> By: Winter http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_426#comment-3304 Winter Sat, 14 Oct 2006 10:37:43 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_426#comment-3304 We are de-linking for basically the same reasons you give. I find the whole thing quite mind boggling though. It's like he went and found pretty much the worst possible thing he could do! We are de-linking for basically the same reasons you give. I find the whole thing quite mind boggling though. It’s like he went and found pretty much the worst possible thing he could do!

]]> By: tekanji http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_426#comment-3291 tekanji Sat, 14 Oct 2006 08:53:45 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_426#comment-3291 I do wish that I had been informed; I didn't start my blogging spot until after the deal seems to have gone through. <blockquote>I think what bothers me the most about the whole thing is that this is mainstream porn. It’s hateful, racist, and anti-woman, and…what is considered “normal”. That’s seriously f-ed up. That racial fetishization is mainstream, that misogyny is mainstream.</blockquote> Yeah. I should have mentioned the racist part of it too, 'cause that's another factor in me not wanting to support it. I do wish that I had been informed; I didn’t start my blogging spot until after the deal seems to have gone through.

I think what bothers me the most about the whole thing is that this is mainstream porn. It’s hateful, racist, and anti-woman, and…what is considered “normal”. That’s seriously f-ed up. That racial fetishization is mainstream, that misogyny is mainstream.

Yeah. I should have mentioned the racist part of it too, ’cause that’s another factor in me not wanting to support it.

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