A few links for the nerds on my flist

Friday membership at Swancon is only 20 dollars. And oh look, that's when both of my panels are :D (Casual anime and hard sf with soft sciences)

There's been a bunch of discussions about how Swancon could improve, eg from angriest (and again) and tommmo, I'd be really curious to hear any opinions from Perth nerds who don't go to Swancon (or do and are dissatisfied). Anyone deep down want to run panels but are too shy/intimidated? I think it's really important for more new people to get involved, and here's some stuff you could volunteer for.

One of the positive outcomes of RaceFail09 is verb_noire, an e-publishing house for works about POC and/or GLBT characters. (And this is a good summary of the fail and why it matters if it's all a bit confusing)

And now I'm going to try and ignore my comments for a bit, because my arm is sore. (Yeah, I know, posting to lj when I feel like crap is like a sickness with me)

Why it's silly to ask "Am I a sexist for doing this?"

EDIT: So Cam is annoyed because I misinterpreted what he meant. So, let's imagine a hypothetical person asked: "I do action X. Does that make me a sexist?"

A metaphor to explain why that's not a useful question:

Suppose you're having a conversation about whether or not it's ok to cut people off in traffic. Suppose someone says:

"I cut someone off in traffic today, does that make me a bad person?"

Either you say "no", and they say "Oh good, so it's ok to cut people off in traffic."
Or you say "yes" and they say "But I can't be a bad person! I give money to charity!"
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