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If you've got your feminist bingo card ready, read the Hathor Legacy thread. You could fill the card several times over.

(I posted the Hathor and Rebecca Allen links, but never went back to the thread as it made me too angry. See the link for Girl Wonder, have a look and then Simon's pulling the same shit all over again. I'm sure that by tomorrow morning you'll be able to fill your racism bingo card as well).

ETA I pulled those quotes because they are either mods, or in the case of bix! people with a huge amount of credibility and respect at Whedonesque.

ETA 2 "Was there a discussion that the Cosby-Show had to few white characters?
Did anyone mention that the Sopranos had too many italians??"

ETA 3This post is now unlocked.

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And the problem is not that people disagree, but the utterly disrespectful tone that is horrendously dismissive of those opinions (which, by the by, are not exactly new or unusual opinions about Joss's work). It isn't just comments stating that people disagreed with Girl-Wonder or Hathor Legacy, but the language used. Certainly more than a little sexism and racism showed up, cloaked in "nice guy language."

You should see some of the comments we've been moderating out! ;-)

ETA: I should say, that we've been moderating out at Hathor. I just realized that could be a little confusing, since I'm not talking about the comments at Whedonesque, but rather about the inevitable, more-obviously-offensive manifestations elsewhere.