So how many folks out there are still having the “comments bug” - the comments not remembering who you are, that is? And what systems are you using? I know Bean’s on XP, how about the rest of you?
Anyhow, I’m working on it. Please be patient.
Also, I’ve changed the font sizes, so hopefully they’re no longer too small to be read, as some folks have complained.
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May 14th, 2003 at 6:10 am
Actually it’s not just you, it’s a problem with practically every Movable Type blog (including my own)…
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May 14th, 2003 at 11:01 am
If you post long enough, it remembers. I think. Has no trouble remembering me now. –I don’t know the precise mechanism, but posting from different computers can confuse it; it can’t catch up when you’re posting to different posts (at the start of your posting history to an MT blog); and even after it starts noticing you with some regularity, it’ll cough once or twice. (Also: always check “Remember info.” Every time.)
Eh. It’s an inconvenience, but a mild one.
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May 14th, 2003 at 4:06 pm
In my experience, the problem is most likely to occur when the blog and the comments are hosted under different domains. For instance, here the blog is at amptoons.com while the comments are at jennworks.com
I had this problem myself when I first started, here’s the MT support forums thread where I found out how to fix it:
http://www.movabletype.org/support/index.php?act=ST&f=14&t=6482&s=4d97b8f4fe42e8153f4c0d30e2a3a355
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May 14th, 2003 at 4:27 pm
Actually, the comments used to be located at jennworks. That was back when we were on Blog. Now that we’re using Movable Type, the comments are hosted on the same site as the rest of the blog.
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May 15th, 2003 at 2:56 am
Which is to say, now both the blog and the comments are hosted on jennworks.com. :-p
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May 15th, 2003 at 3:54 am
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May 16th, 2003 at 5:53 pm
Well, it’s working now, so yay!
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October 10th, 2003 at 2:12 am
Nice Site!
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November 1st, 2003 at 10:03 pm
agree with u
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November 3rd, 2005 at 11:05 pm
[...] It’s so amusing to me that marriage is sold as being a way to commit to a sacred bond between two people, but when it comes to something like requiring a woman to notify her husband before having an abortion it seems that parts of a one’s life become exempt from the “share your whole life” deal to many. Not that I think women should be required to notify their husbands before having an abortion (they shouldn’t), but it would sure be interesting to see how it would affect why women choose to marry who they do if, going beyond a notification requirement, there was a consent requirement. If marriage was really about sharing every part of your life with someone else, there would be no question in any woman’s mind as to whether or not she will tell her husband that she is pregnant and is going to have an abortion. But the majority of the time marriage is about money, or the party and the gifts, or getting your family off your back, or doing what you’re “supposed to” do. And this, dear readers, is why I think marriage is a joke and want no part of it. [...]
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December 29th, 2005 at 9:33 pm
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January 4th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
[...] As I read through the discussion(here) on alas, I was saddened to see the radical fundamentalist view points that show up in feminism today sweeping across the page. It reminded me of working for a woman’s health center in school and how many strong women in the movement look at men as this huge and all powerful enemy to be taken down at all costs. I remember a specific encounter where a woman stated that all males in the medical profession were users out to get one thing and that if you were not willing to sleep your way to the top it was almost impossible to complete residency. When I objected to this, she attacked me, calling me an ignorant asshole. It seems that in modern times, all men are rapists and child molesters, uninterested workaholic fathers, sexually exploitive bosses and co-workers. “We must preserve safe space for women!” They cry. “Women are oppressed and overworked and when we dare to express our views, we are flamed and called names and sexually harassed!” It’s interesting that in my life I have only ever been called a stupid slut by another woman. I have been trash talked, had rumors spread about me, been hit, been lied to and been oppressed by women who did not agree with me, or who did not believe that I could have possibly done what I said I’d done. Some of these women were teachers, some were friends. But the feminists tell me that we are all women together and these women are my sisters. [...]
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January 4th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
I guess that it makes sense that comment #12 is not actually about this thread. Having gone and read Ms. (Miss ? Mrs. ?) Hale’s post in its entirety, it doesn’t sound to me like she really read in depth whatever thread which she professes to be commenting about. (As if you’d get a comprehensive overview of any sort of feminism, Radical or otherwise, by reading one thread on one blog.)
Yeah, Heart (for example) casts a big shadow and all, but I don’t think she represents every radical feminist out there. I also find it interesting that Hale claims The One Great Radical Feminist Viewpoint is “sweeping across” all of feminism today, or whatever. If she can literally stand in the street all day every day and just have the One Great Radical Feminist Viewpoint wash all over her like a fine mist (fog ? drizzle ?) I rather envy her. It took a lot of work for me personally to even begin to understand what Radical Feminism is and to find people who could explain it in a way I understand. I’m still working on it.
So feminism is meaningless because some women –who may or may not call themselves feminists;the writer doesn’t specify– are mean and nasty.
Okay, then. :/
I have run across some feminists who have been, to put it mildly, impossible to deal with. I’ve also run across a great many women in general who are also impossible to deal with. What I find most puzzling about Hale’s POV is that she claims to not be feminist because we (men and women) should all be appreciated for what makes us different from one another:
But Hale refuses to grant feminism that kind of leeway. She refuses to appreciate differences among feminists, instead conveniently picking that which (to her mind) is the absolute nadir of what a woman should be, tagging that inadvertant universal spokeswoman “feminist,” and then using personal dislike of said spokeswoman as an excuse to chuck an entire movement into history’s dumpster.
Gevalt.
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January 5th, 2006 at 4:27 am
So feminism is meaningless because some women ““who may or may not call themselves feminists;the writer doesn’t specify”“ are mean and nasty.
I read it as meaning that the writer feels less oppressed by men than by women and thus cannot accept the basic tenet of radical feminism.
When I’d had very little firsthand exposure to feminist thinking and only heard what anti-feminists were claiming feminists think, I had a lot of the same problems with calling myself a feminist. I had to start lurking at Alas and listening to a lot of feminist discussions before I could appreciate that feminism is a broad church and there is enough dissent in the ranks that, yes, my views could also fit.
We can hope the writer follows a similar path…
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January 5th, 2006 at 4:44 am
[Yawn] I have never heard any feminist say that or its equivalent, and I’ve challenged the antifems to come up with an authentic example, and they couldn’t either.. The words do appear in Marilyn French’s book, where they were the words of a fictional character. Ditto “all sex is rape”, which has only ever been uttered by critics of feminism, as far as I have been able to determine.
We need a kind of Godwin’s Law for feminism. As soon as someone attributes either of these statements to feminism, they lose whatever argument is taking place at the time.
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January 5th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
The words do appear in Marilyn French’s book, where they were the words of a fictional character.
This comment was written by Nick Kiddle.And not even the viewpoint character, so you can’t even plead author surrogacy.
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January 5th, 2006 at 7:23 pm
I do believe that both sub species…
Women & men are sub species? They’re not even subspecies? Not only is this person seriously deficient in basic knowledge of biology, this person is seriously deficient in the English language. Yeah, I know. I shouldn’t make fun of misspelling as I do it more and more lately. But who can resist the siren call of ignorance & misuse of pseudo-language? Somebody wake me when there is a knowledgeable critic of feminism.
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January 8th, 2006 at 11:30 pm
[...] Bondage and Patriarchy Fabulous post and comment thread on Alas, a Blog about BDSM — the eroticisation of power, the operation and definition of consent, the role of fantasy, and more. [...]
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January 16th, 2006 at 10:02 am
[...] This post is a continuation of my second response as part of this thread on reproductive rights at Alas, A Blog, where I raised the differences between the Jewish and Christian approaches to the status of the fetus…because I think there is no way to avoid the fact that the entire abortion debate in this country is being carried out, explicitly and implicitly, in Christian, or at least Christianized terms…and also between the Jewish approach and the approach which made abortion legal in the United States, which is grounded in a woman’s right to privacy. I’m not so much interested here in arguing that either the Jewish or right-to-privacy approach is better than the other in supporting a woman’s right to choose than I am simply in laying out a different way of framing the issue of abortion and seeing what people make of it in the context of the struggle to maintain abortion rights that is going on in this country. (If you’re interested, or want some context for my own position regarding reproductive rights, I wrote something about it on my previous blog, Everything Is Connected.) [...]
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January 27th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
[...] There’s a conversation going on at Alas, A Blog about rape, and specifically about why some women have a hard time recognizing rape as rape, that has made me think of something that happened to me a long time ago, but I don’t want to post this there because I think it will muddy the waters in a way that will take the focus off women and rape, where I think it belongs. Nonetheless, I think–and not just because it happened to me–that my story raises some interesting questions, and so I am posting it here instead. [...]
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