Comments on: Dear X, I Once Said That I Hope You Never Change

By: johanna

johanna — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:14:14 +0000

I came to this post via your comment about it on Feministe.

I’m Filipina, so you can imagine that I, too, am disgusted by the casual cutesy use of the mail-order bride in the snippet quoted. AUGH.

Yet another reason to avoid the book & its author.

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By: Shame on you, Amanda Marcotte

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By: Gabriel...

Gabriel... — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:37:48 +0000

A store in Toronto called ‘Good For Her’ sent me a press release regarding their Third Annual Feminist Porn Awards… a friend of mine is an advocate for “sex-trade workers” in Toronto. I’d be curious in your reaction (if any) to this:

goodforher.com/Feminist_Porn_Awards/FPA_s_2008.html

According to their site ‘Good For Her’ is “Toronto’s cozy, comfortable and accessible place where women and their admirers can find a variety of high quality sex toys, books, DVDs, workshops, sensual art, and much more.”

The biography’s at the bottom of the page are really interesting…

By: Natalia Antonova

Natalia Antonova — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:38:26 +0000

And Anthony, I’m going to change the URL, just giving you a heads up.

By: Natalia Antonova

Natalia Antonova — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:37:39 +0000

I wanted to follow Bfp's wishes on this. Thanks for noting the URL, Gabriel. Obviously, this should not be an individual piefight.

By: Anthony Kennerson

Anthony Kennerson — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:09:22 +0000

And….it should be noted in the record that it was BfP, not “X”, who came up with the idea of using the latter to describe the person being addressed in this essay; mostly to avoid the pretension of the important debate being reduced down to an individual piefight. In fact, “X” was only mentioned tangentally in BfP’s original article; and only by proxy; her real name was never mentioned at all.

Anthony

By: Anthony Kennerson

Anthony Kennerson — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:01:48 +0000

Sorry, but unless I get a specific request from "X" to remove her name (and even then, I might claim "fair use" rights since it's her article and her theft), her original name stays on the title of my post. Whatever arraignments may exist between "X" and other bloggers are theirs and theirs alone; I retain my own rights and my own words. If you want to delete the trackback that contains "X"'s real name in the title and the brief excerpt, Natalia, that's fine with me, though...I will simply add the link to my own entry here. Anthony

By: Gabriel...

Gabriel... — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:48:40 +0000

“The name of the person I am addressing has been removed from this post, per request.”

…just a note on keeping someone’s identity somewhat anonymous… Amanda’s name is in the URL for this post.