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digitaldiscipline
digitaldisciplineAs a byproduct/upshot of my telling bigots to fuck themselves when it comes to sexual orientation and gender bias, I've re-stumbled upon the fractal evil and stupidity of humanity.
In Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson, through the character of Randy Waterhouse, describes another character's life as "fractally weird," in that it's weird when you look at the whole thing, and any closer examination of any part of it reveals detailed weirdness in an apparently infinite recursion. Looking at the ways in which men (and some women, but mostly men) are generally awful to women (and homosexuals, and transgendered folks) for a ten-thousand-foot summary view I'm trying to cobble together for Tecca, it's very nearly impossible to end up not falling down a tremendous number of nearly parallel post-holes of shittiness, and with the recent Readercon episode, that's spilled over the threshold from online shit to real-world iterations of that culture and mentality.
I've requested a couple dozen Backup Ribbons to wear and hand out at D*C. If anybody wants one, I'm pretty easy to find. If anyone needs backup, I'm more than willing to do so, both in my capacity as a guy who tries not to be an asshole, and as a member of the D*C staff, whose job it is to ensure that the event is enjoyable and safe (I'm may not be Con Security, but will have them on speed dial).
In Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson, through the character of Randy Waterhouse, describes another character's life as "fractally weird," in that it's weird when you look at the whole thing, and any closer examination of any part of it reveals detailed weirdness in an apparently infinite recursion. Looking at the ways in which men (and some women, but mostly men) are generally awful to women (and homosexuals, and transgendered folks) for a ten-thousand-foot summary view I'm trying to cobble together for Tecca, it's very nearly impossible to end up not falling down a tremendous number of nearly parallel post-holes of shittiness, and with the recent Readercon episode, that's spilled over the threshold from online shit to real-world iterations of that culture and mentality.
I've requested a couple dozen Backup Ribbons to wear and hand out at D*C. If anybody wants one, I'm pretty easy to find. If anyone needs backup, I'm more than willing to do so, both in my capacity as a guy who tries not to be an asshole, and as a member of the D*C staff, whose job it is to ensure that the event is enjoyable and safe (I'm may not be Con Security, but will have them on speed dial).
