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[alestar]

1. So we all did the I Write Like meme, and it was funny and already inaccurate, and I'm not going to shit on it, so just be patient.

I want to take a look at a frequently misunderstood argument about color-blindness and gender-blindness. It was pointed out by zia_narratora that of all 40 possible returns for the writer meme, only three were women and all

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[alestar]

Certainly-- my point isn't that people who are color-blind/gender-blind intentionally exclude women or poc; it's that they fail to notice in their own passivity in accepting the polychromatic, homosocial canon they've been handed by patrimony. Hence the "blindness."

It could be an indication of his blindness to his own prejudices, or just an attempt to grab the moral high ground against the charges of sexism and racism that are coming.

Yeah, and I gestured toward that when I said that the original email might've elicited an email from Chestnykh that's all bluster, and we don't know what changes he might actually make to his software-- but Dmitry Chestnykh and his software aren't my concern, only the speciousness of his argument. It's not just his argument; it's an argument I hear a lot, which is why I wanted to talk about it

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[meallanmouse]

This is merely on an informational basis - comments in the OP's post state what he used as reference for his list: http://zia-narratora.livejournal.com/627422.html?thread=5784030#t5784030

Wikipedia Best-seller list: http://zia-narratora.livejournal.com/627422.html?thread=5784030#t5784030

The Gutenberg project top downloads: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top

[alestar]

zia-narratora suggests some uncertainty: he says he used the top downloads on Project Gutenberg and the list of "bestsellers" on Wikipedia, but there are white female authors and authors of color of both genders on those lists who are not represented here. Also-- the James Fenimore Cooper is throwing me off; he's not in the top dls, and I don't think he's been a best-seller since the 18th century.

But anyway, as I told dexfarkin, I don't actually care about the software; I only care about the concept of color-blindness. Equality means not looking at skin color or different types of chromosomes; that is an unambiguous, problematic statement.

[meallanmouse]

On that, I concur.

[jennabreen]

ILU. You want to start a commune together? We can write fic and rant about these things ALL DAY.

J

[alestar]

ILU2! We should mos def start a commune-- but you're going to have to come to the east coast. Or we could meet in the middle! You, me, Iowa, a guitar, a banjo and a word processor.