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June 23, 2002
Or I just like saying "Cuntabulous"
There is, or rather was, an article at Cuntabulous on discrimination in punk feminism. Which I only stumbled upon looking for a copy of Lorraine Bethel's "What Chou Mean We, White Girl?", but that's neither here nor there.
Or, rather, it's not there at the site, but is linked here to Google's catched copy. There was a discussion on Slashdot a few days back about Google cache and the Internet Archive, and the possible copyright implications of someone else serving your content. Like most Slashdot discussions, there were a few people writing cogently about the pros and cons, while the majority of the geeks proclaimed jihad in self-righteous anger and Manichaean reductionism.
(These are the people who will say, proudly, that they built their computer. Ask them if their neighbors complained about the toxic runoff from the chip fabrication plant; they start turning all sorts of interesting colors as they start redefining "built" into "assembled from parts made by children in sweatshops".)
The adults pointed out, repeatedly, for the slow learners, that you can just say in your site's robots.txt that you'd prefer not to have that sort of thing happen. Which just caused more stamping and whining. There's a strong Libertarian thread in the geek community, you see. For "Libertarian" read "whiny gits suffering from arrested development." Or, if you prefer Warren Ellis' take, "They need a better manifesto than 'If we eliminate all taxes tomorrow, everyone gets a rocketship!'"
Tend to see them as Republicans without the redeeming social values, myself.
And Republicans have no redeeming social values.
Posted by Aaron at June 23, 2002 10:39 PM