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I have a sinister agenda. Cobra-LA!
But seriously, folks. Does it bother me? Well, not massively, no. If a man wants to call himself a ladypart, I don't occasion a strong emotional reaction in me. If a man uses the same term to describe a woman, it does. I try to avoid using it myself, because it bothers other people for reasons with which I am broadly sympathetic. However, a lot of things which happen specifically on Barbelith bother me or other people, and only some of those things are starred out. There is no established policy on many of these matters, although maybe there should be; there is only social consensus, as far as I know.
So, I responded with "gosh" to Monk's heads-up:
Have PM'd Neville, asking that he propose the edit on the offending phrase.
Because it struck me as an interesting thing to do, especially when Neville Barker is referring to himself, in an awkward bit of linguistic Anglophilia, as a person who likes Howard (Phillip Lovecraft).
So, hmmm. I wouldn't use the term myself, no. I certainly support the right of people to register unhappiness with the term, even when used to describe one's male self, and to ask people to refrain from using it. What was interesting to me there was the overlap of requesting that as a fellow member of Barbelith, and requesting it as a moderator. I'm not sure how one pulls those things apart - I hadn't really thought of it as a moderator thing until EM cited it here, but I guess that there is an element of maintaining the forum in flagging in-thread that there's been a contact made with Neville by PM.
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