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I'm going to shut up soon, really!

Or anyway -- this weekend I'm going to try to get to all the WisCon stuff I haven't gotten to yet. I was making a bunch of "Best WisCon Ever!" comments earlier and just now I realized, it's the first WisCon where I didn't cry. *g*

I made my Linux desktop really pink. If it can do pink and it can do Japanese, then I'm all set.

Rage.

There is nothing that's "Christian" about advice like "If you dress like a piece of meat, you're gonna get thrown on the BBQ" or "Girls, giving your affection to a guy right away... just gives him a prize without making him fight for it. He didn't have to make an effort. He didn't invest any money. And now you give him a prize" or "Every new sexual experience when you are not married puts another ding, another scratch, another scar on who you are."

Justin Lookadoo and Hayley DiMarco, you suck. Revell Books, Hungry Planet, you suck, go away. You want to tell someone who's been raped that she's now a "beat-up old used car"? You freaking suck.

And this is why the Twilight books are so popular, you know?

Because girls don't want to be told that they have the sole responsibility for not letting anyone have sex with them, for not getting treated like a piece of meat. They don't want to have that job. Twilight -- it's all the passion and none of the guilt, and it's the guy who's put into that gatekeeper role. And as much as I hate those books, as much as I think they have poisonous attitudes about men and women and romantic relationships, it's better than what's in "Dateable."

Wiscon blogging: Writing to Recruit

We want your children: Writing to recruit

With Sharyn November, Sigrid J. Ellis, Naomi Kritzer, Nnedi Nkemdili Okorafor, Susan Ramirez.

Children's literature can be a powerful force for feminist ideas, and under some circumstances can fly right under the radar and into the hands of the children on the Other Side. How do you write subversively for children without turning the books into (boring) propaganda? What books are successfully bringing feminist or other progressive ideas to an unsuspecting audience even as we speak?

Read it because it has Sharyn November calling me out and striking terror into my heart! It's hilarious!

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