Saturday, 24 November 2007

PS Toolbar Manhaters

PS:  It's worth taking a look at Wayne's comment in the previous post, for another take on my MetaFilter dissatisfaction.

24 Nov 2007 08:25:25 | Politics

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Toolbelt Manhaters - A MetaFilter Mystery Sometimes you have to reinvent the wheel because it turns out it never got invented in the first place. An object lesson over on these two MetaTalk threads of MetaFilter, about which I wrote an LRB article recently. The subject is whether or not men dominate the space and how they do it. I got involved reading a conversation started by a post about a flasher. Women were talking about their experiences. Very rare to see so many women involved in the comments. Suddenly the thread wasn't there any more. The moderators had deemed it a bad post, which always overrides a good discussion. So I was told when I set up another post on the same topic which was deleted because it was 'making a point' and that isn't what MetaFilter was about either. My mistake. I didn't remember that you have to accept the rules of a place when it isn't collectively run. But the complaint threads developed, and women began to say how uncomfortable they felt with the 'boyzone' talk, and some of the men fought back with talk of zealots, how women always make victims of themselves instead of getting on the right wavelength...oh god, all...
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Every Little Hurts Obviously I had no intention of going, but The Poet set off and I cheered him on from my sofa in the solitarium. It was the Stop Tesco Opening in Mill Road March, yesterday. Mill Road, I learned, is called 'the most multi-cultural street in Britain' by The Telegraph - in what tone I can't say. And I live directly off it. It is a very fine road, full of shops selling ingredients for, or the food of every cuisine under the sun, well, Chinese, Indian, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Turkish, American, New Zealand; and bicycles, old fashioned hardware, electrical bits and pieces, organic this and that, as well as booze, printer ink, computers, electronic music stuff, toys. There's a mosque, a couple of chapels, and a new age bookshop. And Tesco has just discovered a triple fronted vacant shop to begin the ruin of it. But my foot doesn't walk half a mile without pain, I've got a streaming cold that's refused to go away for a week, and as well as being entirely idle, I've got an aversion to crowds, actually an aversion to more than three people on the street at the same time. I've avoided demonstrations, though...

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