Comments on: Dear White Feminists

By: aufheben

aufheben — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:57:04 +0000

*nods head vigorously*

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:44:30 +0000

As one who knows you in “real life”, as in, living two blocks away…

The proper response to a call to end the erasure of women of color from the public sphere….

Also: Doesn’t include the silence of one’s self. Where is the response? I read thru Pandagon’s (Amanda’s) archives for the month: as of April 25, 2008, still no response. But then, I don’t know the legal (publisher’s) response, as she’s bond to (or might be legally bond to).

However: You don’t link to enough “proof” for those of us who haven’t been tracking this important issue since “the beginning”: I can’t even count how many bloggers I’ve read in the past several days who have “blogged” about “this” but didn’t bother with linking for one “reason” or another.

…the person that set all this off, from the purposeful silence to the purposeless assholery….

A link to tell me (us) who this person is, would be great. This whole argument has gotten so convoluted (at once from WAM! and their [WAM!] inability to recognize WOC, to Amanda at Pandagon [and where ever else she blogs] [with the posts(s) about "illegal immigrants", and the images (holy shit!!) in her published book!]) that I have no idea who is referencing who….

… where the biggest feminist blogger was a man…

According to some; at that time. My “biggest feminist blogger” at that time was Jill/Twisty. To others, it was perhaps you, while at Feministe.

This seems to be a sordid mess.

That needs to be cleaned/addressed by all those involved, and NOT by those not involved.

By: zuzu

zuzu — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:32:10 +0000

Excellent post.

By: Sina

Sina — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:08:47 +0000

Word.

By: little light

little light — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:16:12 +0000

Lauren, my partner and I were just talking last night about how you always seem to come through. I think a lot of the excellence of what Feministe is today is because of your influence.
Just–thank you. It’s nice right now to have reminders of allies.

By: Thomas, TSID

Thomas, TSID — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:17:00 +0000

I am of course biased in this; but because of your history, I see your voice as one of paramount importance here. I am so glad that you said what you said, and that you said it the way you said it.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:31:01 +0000

I guess I don’t see assholery, I see defensiveness on the part of someone backed into a corner. But that’s probably nit-picking — good post.

By: jeffliveshere

jeffliveshere — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:37:48 +0000

Thank you. Well put.

By: Fred Vincy

Fred Vincy — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:24:43 +0000

Well said, Lauren.

By: Arwen

Arwen — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:51:14 +0000

Nicely said.