Feminist.

Link of the Day: Feminist (Yes, you are).

Sars takes on the issue of people saying "I'm not a feminist but [insert belief here]", and exactly how stupid a statement that is. I'm actually a major fan of her blog, which tackles both actual cultural issues and just talks about her own life. It's generally well-written, funny and easy to empathize with. My favorite of her columns would actually have to be slut which I loved enough to already post about, otherwise it would have definitely been today's link.

Apart from that, I was supposed to go watch films on immigration from 6-8PM today for my Women's Study.

Guess what happened?

The first film was delayed by US Customs who said that it contains obscene or immoral material. The plot of the film? It's a documentary made by a guy who spent a year living alongside illegal immigrants in order to record their lives. What an obscene idea; it's really immoral of him.

At any rate, we watched a replacement film called "Well-Founded Fear" about the asylumn-seeking process, which was double the length of "Living With Illegals", meaning I was stuck there from 6-9. I liked the film though but its length made me rather fidgety and of the 'just let them in, already!' mindset. America's a big country. It's not like it's China. I am strongly against tightening immigration laws and I detest the fact that the new limitations on asylum seeking make it harder for people to apply, or to appeal the decision if they're denied the right to stay in the US.

Icon interests meme.

1) Comment and I'll pick one of your LJ interests and make you an icon.
2) You have no say in what I make.
3) Put this in your journal so I can do the same.

Feel free to ignore the last line, for those of you who are either too busy or too unartistic to make icons. *hugs the Utena icon that vs_malik made her last time*

Myfandoms.com -- what the hell?

You know the new feature el-jay has that lets you know when you've been added to someone's friendslist? Well, I found out that myfandoms added me to their flist so I toddled over to check them out on the off-chance that I wanted to friend them back.

It turned out that the journal is basically a big advertisment for a site, myfandoms.com, and that the guy running it is hyping it as:

MyFandoms.com is a new site opened in Beta phase while we’re making sure we have all the tools and features fan fic writers want and need. Later in the fall, we’ll be conducting a fan fiction contest that will be judged by several prominent Hollywood producers, directors, and writers. This is your chance to get YOUR fan fiction read by people who create and make TV shows and movies! By being among the first to add their fan fiction to the site, you are guaranteeing yourself maximum exposure to every member who comes behind you.

Wow. I'm so impressed.

I thought at first that this might violate el-jay TOS because technically, you could make a case for this to be considered spamming, but on the other hand, it's not like I have to read that journal or do anything about the fact that it friended me.

But then I checked my other e-mail, my personal one (which is different to the one that el-jay comments to this journal get sent to), and I found out that I had an e-mail there from him! Which made me go rather wtf?! because the only way for him to know that address is to have somehow got it from my ff.net records or my deadjournal. And if he got it from ff.net, then why did he friend my personal journal instead of my writing journal (only_fiction)?

On the bright side, the e-mail at least cleared up how he'd found me:

Some people have written back to ask "how did you find me?" Basic Google searching is the answer. I just looked for people who had a healthy number of stories in popular fandoms. You're the people we want to join the myFandoms.com writers! We hope to see you soon. :-D

Also, what's a 'healthy number of stories'? I barely have fifty stories on my ff.net account and most of the good stuff is on my writing journal and not posted anywhere else. Though I suppose that I should be impressed that I popped up on Google (as did cairnsy apparently since she got friended too) when I really think of myself as a relatively obscure writer sans the sort of BNF status that you think would be what would send people to the top of Google lists.

*confused and waaaaaaay too sleepy to be dealing with this right now*