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Sherlock Holmes and the Cult Of Characterisation, Part 3 of ?
(Part 1, Part 2 — incidentally, Part 2 has a lot of excellent comments which I’ve not had a chance to reply to yet — I’m well enough to write or to reply to comments, but not really both. ) … Continue reading
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Tagged characterisation, conan doyle, feminism, irene adler, Sherlock Holmes
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So Farewell Then, Page 3…
…or not. I’ve always been a little dubious about the No More Page 3 campaign. Not about its aims as such — I tend to agree that newspapers are not the right place for soft porn, although I would also … Continue reading
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Tagged feminism, i have opinions, sexism
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Nerdy Boys, @PennyRed, Scott Aaronson and Male Privilege
EDIT 01/01/15: Since I wrote this, Scott Aaronson has written a follow-up post, in which he says, in particular: The second concession is that, all my life, I’ve benefited from male privilege, white privilege, and straight privilege. I would only … Continue reading
Signal-boosting — Call For Female Writers From Obverse Books
I was about to post a short review of Lawrence Burton’s excellent Faction Paradox novel and Phil Purser-Hallard’s equally excellent Senor 105 novella (a post which will go up tomorrow or Monday instead), when I went to the Obverse Books … Continue reading
