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Shakesville
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Shakesville is a personal blog at shakesville.com about politics and culture. Since 2012, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “The Falsest of False Equivalencies”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Shakesville's feminist posts, such as "Rape Culture 101" and "privilege blindness", as reference material on rape culture and gender, and its critiques of the Adria Richards and Jon Ronson coverage.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Falsest of False Equivalencies5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-02-21
What Hacker News says?
To be honest, I'm a little bit skeptical of the honesty of the interviewer. Even if she said the things in this article, it's possible many of those statements were taken out of context. Someone here linked to this blog post [1] from someone apparently close to Richards, where the writer is classified as being manipulative and duplicitous in order to obtain 'the first interview' with Adria Richards. [1] http://www.s…
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on “Jon Ronson: How a Tweet Can Ruin Your Life”Submitted The Falsest of False Equivalencies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLet's be clear here, Jon Ronson spent a fair bit of time lying to Adria Richards to put together his book, his portrayal of the timeline is inaccurate and even if this wasn't the case it'd be a phenomenal amount of false equivalence: http://www.shakesville.com/2015/02/the-falsest-of-false-equi... TL;DR; Yeah he got fired, but he didn't get fired because of an internet backlash.
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on “Jon Ronson: How a Tweet Can Ruin Your Life”Submitted The Falsest of False Equivalencies as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> people who try to join nerd communities and then immediately start complaining about "inappropriate behavior" (eg the dongle thing) You seem very sure about when Adria Richards (the lady involved in "donglegate") "tried" to join the nerd community. And yet you're wrong. Here's a partial bio from a recent article: "She was introverted, smart, and "weird" (according to the other kids)—a burgeoning nerd. By age 17, s…
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on “When Nerds Collide (2014)”Submitted The terrible bargain we have regretfully struck (2009) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Please cite your statistics. Rape culture seeks to describe why rape occurs and is promoted within a society. As per usual, Wikipedia has the overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_culture . EDIT: Another good resource I use for this same convo that happen inevitably someone mentions sexism in a male space like Hacker News: http://www.shakesville.com/2009/10/rape-culture-101.html > This is a hacker convention…
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on “Sexual Harassment at DefCon (and Other Hacker Cons)”Submitted Harmful Communication – Intent as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe top comments on here are all from men who took offense to their fellow man's rather non-controversial (IMHO) acknowledgement that a man necessarily, by definition, lacks the first-person experience on women's issues. They have not commented on anything of substance from the actual article. So this mysterious word of yours.... what is it? Mine is "privilege blindness": http://www.shakesville.com/2008/04/blindness…
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on “Lean In should be read by everyone, including men”- Mz · 2014-06-12
Submitted We Need to Talk About This as a story · 1 points
HN discussion Stopping sexual assault isn't just an individual's problem, it is a problem for all of society. Why should we live in a culture where 1 in 5 women will experience sexual assault in their lifetime? The kind of systemic problems we face can't be solved by an individual buying a self defense item. We need to focus on defeating a rape culture: http://www.shakesville.com/2009/10/rape-culture-101.html
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on “A Wrist-Worn Answer to Sexual Attack?”Submitted Harmful Communication, Part One: Intent is Magic as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMy main point is that most people won't have a chance to protect themselves, although I do agree 100% people have a right to protect themselves. It's important to note that self defense isn't a solution to the overall problem and leave those in circumstances where its difficult to defend themselves without options (e.g. someone with a disability). My second example was to highlight that people defending themselves f…
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on “A Wrist-Worn Answer to Sexual Attack?”
