{"id":5705,"date":"2014-09-24T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5705"},"modified":"2014-09-24T16:00:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T21:00:15","slug":"your-happening-world-september-22nd-through-september-24th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/09\/24\/your-happening-world-september-22nd-through-september-24th\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Happening World (September 22nd through September 24th)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/05\/27\/your-princess-is-in-another-castle-misogyny-entitlement-and-nerds.html\">Your Princess Is in Another Castle: Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds &#8211; The Daily Beast<\/a> &#8211; Fixating on a woman from afar and then refusing to give up when she acts like she&rsquo;s not interested is, generally, something that ends badly for everyone involved. But it&rsquo;s a narrative that nerds and nerd media kept repeating.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/storify.com\/strictmachine\/gameovergate?utm_campaign=website&amp;utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=email\">#GameOverGate (with images, tweets) &middot; strictmachine &middot; Storify<\/a> &#8211; Zoe Quinn blows #GamerGate wide open.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2014\/09\/timothy-snyders-lies\/\">Timothy Snyder&rsquo;s Lies | Jacobin<\/a> &#8211; In Timothy Snyder&rsquo;s Bloodlands, Hitler and Stalin are one and the same. And the partisans &mdash; Jewish fighters included &mdash; only encouraged German crimes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/whirlingnerdish.blogspot.nl\/2014\/09\/asthma-and-mirror-empire_17.html\">Whirling Nerdish: Asthma and THE MIRROR EMPIRE<\/a> &#8211; I&rsquo;m particularly interested in how Hurley handles this character because all my life, I was told by movies and TV that people with asthma were nerds. They were geeks, dweebs, losers. Pathetic little wastes that fly into a wheezing, gasping fit when things get difficult while, meanwhile, the HERO goes and kicks the bad guys ass and handles his shit.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aliettedebodard.com\/2013\/09\/13\/a-few-disjointed-thoughts-on-other-cultures-and-diversity-in-sff\/#more-22005\">A few disjointed thoughts on other cultures and diversity in SFF &#8211; Aliette de Bodard<\/a> &#8211; Researching another culture is freaking hard work, PLEASE do not undertake it lightly (and when I say &ldquo;freaking hard work&rdquo;, I don&rsquo;t mean a few days on Wikipedia, or even a few days of reading secondary sources at the library). And PLEASE do not think you&rsquo;ll be exempt of prejudice\/dominant culture perceptions\/etc. No one is.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pdsh.wikia.com\/wiki\/Public_Domain_Super_Heroes\">Public Domain Super Heroes<\/a> &#8211; Public Domain Super Heroes is a collaborative website about comic book, comic strip, film, literary, pulp, mythological, television, animation, folk stories, etc&#8230; Characters in the public domain fitting in genres such as the masked vigilante, caped crusader, villains, scientists, magicians, robots, jungle lord, and their supporting characters.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.depauw.edu\/sfs\/pioneers\/butler91.htm\">Pioneer winners &#8212; Butler: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the British Boom<\/a> &#8211; &ldquo;There certainly seems to be something of a boom. To a certain extent these things are always artefacts&#8213;there&rsquo;s no objective criteria by which one can judge &lsquo;boom-ness&rsquo; (boomitude? boomosity?&#8213;so the fact that everyone&rsquo;s talking about it is to a certain extent definitional of the fact that something&rsquo;s going on&rdquo;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Princess Is in Another Castle: Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds &#8211; The Daily Beast &#8211; Fixating on a woman from afar and then refusing to give up when she acts like she&rsquo;s not interested is, generally, something that ends badly for everyone involved. But it&rsquo;s a narrative that nerds and nerd media kept repeating. #GameOverGate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324],"tags":[2036,1811,1842,870,2464,2457,2463,2039,2439,2034,153,2441,2035,2038,1876,1896,198,2037],"class_list":["post-5705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linky","tag-asthma","tag-comics","tag-diversity","tag-fandom","tag-fantasy","tag-feminism","tag-history","tag-nerddom-privilege","tag-politics","tag-public-domain","tag-russia","tag-science-fiction","tag-superheroes","tag-thatiswhywevideogaming","tag-united-kingdom","tag-videogaming","tag-writing","tag-zoe-quinn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5705"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5716,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705\/revisions\/5716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}