Guest post on Shakesville

[soc_puppet]

For those of you looking forward to it, I am happy to announce that I now have a guest post up on Shakesville about that horrendous female character flowchart from last week. It can be found here: The Solution Is Obviously to Write No More Female Characters at All

It's got a number of great links of its own, and is almost certain to have some great commentary. It may even help spread the issue a bit more (hope, hope).


On a somewhat related note, Privilege Is: Being able to walk down two flights of stairs and one block uphill to a public facility to use the restroom, and back, when the water is turned off for maintenance in one's apartment.

Comments

[redsixwing]

I quite liked your article, but have nothing intelligent to say in comments. So: go you!

[inarticulate]

I can't say much at the moment, but I will say: thank you ♥

[cookinguptales.livejournal.com]

When I was in NYC's airport, they had the handicapped accessible toilets closed in two terminals (..JUST the h/c stalls) and after I'd been searching for a half hour, I finally found one...that had a goddamn step. Just the h/c one. Not the normal bathroom. It was in a separate room. With a 2 inch step. That doesn't sound like much, but it's not exactly easy in a wheelchair. :/ ESPECIALLY WHEN YOUR BLADDER IS SUPER FULL BECAUSE YOU HAD TO LOOK FOR A TOILET FOR A HALF HOUR. :||||

...also, there was a Strawberry Shortcake cosplayer I gave the evil eye to for most of the con because she decided that the h/c stall on the showfloor was really a changing room.

...and don't even get me STARTED on trying to find a h/c toilet when wandering around NYC.

and just for h/c accessible shittiness, the biggest comic shop in NYC, which I attempted to visit, has...steps. and no elevator. I was instructed to go to their h/c accessible location across town. It was a third the size. GJ.

It was to the point where I was almost wishing that I'd just brought my cane, even if I would've been puking by the end of the first day.

[lightbird777.livejournal.com]

I read your post on Shakesville and commented. Great job!

[op-longshot.livejournal.com]

(oh hi I still have you friendslisted even though I don't check LJ as much as I used to)

Ta on contributing to the derailing of that chart. I have friends who I won't even link it to in order to avoid listening to them ranting for hours. Now that I see your responses and those of others, though, I can at least show my friends those.

(On entirely unrelated note, have you managed to get KH Birth by Sleep yet? It's fantastic.)