Whee!

[ellenmillion]

The tea should ship next week! Wow, I'm impressed! Then, a week to get here, probably. I'm only ordering 50 of each to begin with, because I want to make sure the product is as good as the sample and that the print quality isn't crap. Need to figure out how to allot the first batch of orders. Possibly just first come-first-served and everyone else just waits, if the quality is fine and I'll be able to get a reorder within a few weeks. (With appropriate fore-warning)

The other unmentionable possible oddball product may or may not work, so don't get your hopes up. I'll probably know by the time I get the tea orders up.

In other news, I hate being a nag. Hate hate hate. I also have caught myself several times this week being an unrequested critic. In both cases, it was not only well-received, but appreciated, but that doesn't stop me from feeling like a horrible, overly-opinionated loudmouth.

In other, other news, I am completely appalled by Illustrators Partnership. It's not an 'us or them' issue, and their debunking of the debunking is... flawed. They ought to be embarrassed. Yeah, I said it.

In other, other hot news, I haven't weighed in on the great Open Source Boobs Project because it strikes me as a little silly. Classy people ask permission for classy things in a classy fashion. If you want to touch my boobs, you're free to ask. I will tell you flatly no, because my boobs are my business, and you gotta *earn* access to them. The question itself would not be classy, but I wouldn't consider it harassment or OMG objectifying me. How you ask would have a lot to do with how I answer. Look me in the eye and solemnly ask me for permission, and I'll look you in the eye and tell you you don't get it. Drool, ogle or otherwise make an ass of yourself, and I'll treat you with the same lack of respect. It takes a lot more than a question to spur me to violence.

See, there I go being all overly-opinionated again.

Comments

[renatus.livejournal.com]

Oh honey. That barely scratched the surface of the kind of opinionated that gets bitched at, it's hardly overly so. There's some gooood feminist takedowns out there of this whole thing and that person who wallowed all in his stupid white male privledge about touching teh bewbiez.

(See? THAT is getting to overly-opinionated. And I'm holding myself back like whoa.)

[renatus.livejournal.com]

And, argh, my tone sucks when I'm tired--I don't mean the 'Oh honey' in a patronizing way, but as an 'Oh honey you are being way too hard on yourself.' I am apparently turning into a little old lady now that I have two silver hairs.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

I took it the second way, no worries!

I'll lend you my cane and we can yell at people to get off the lawn together, if you like.

[renatus.livejournal.com]

Sweet! :D

[pers1stence.livejournal.com]

I find it hard to get all worked up about the Open Boob project (also, I kind of vaguely thought I recalled it actually happened a while ago but maybe I misremember).

At some point, silliness is just silliness and isn't worth the energy spent to get all angrified about it. I'd much rather see people get worked up about unequal pay, the shortcomings of our family medical leave, crime and poverty, that sort of thing.

Dorky boys being forthright and mostly harmless aren't worth my time.

[renatus.livejournal.com]

'Boys'? Dude is near to 40. He passed the 'boy' mark a looooong time ago, he doesn't get any free passes for being a sexist dipshit. This 'small stuff' can be just as important as the big stuff, because it ALL wears. It's the little stuff that nibbles away at our energy to tackle the big stuff.

... *adjusts skirt* Sorry, my opinion started showing again...

[kadiera.livejournal.com]

I've always thought that age is not what makes one a man instead of a boy.

Given the original poster, and his treatment of the subject at hand, I'd argue he's got the emotional standing of the average 13 year old when it comes to these sorts of things, and thus doesn't deserve to be called anything other than boy.

YMMV, of course :-)

[renatus.livejournal.com]

A very fair point, and I very much agree with that assessment of his maturity level--but I'm unwilling to call him one as regarding this because it lends him an aura of innocence and non-dangerousness he really, really doesn't deserve to have.

I was victimized by a jerk much like this when I was an emotionally frail teenager, so I am very, very harsh toward them.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

I'm working up an article that will have good links and hard facts, but the links are all at home, sorry! It'll be out in the May EMG-Zine issue.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Gawdawful long .gov .pdfs, law sites and many of the sources that the IP references.

[ryokomusouka.livejournal.com]

It was the whole "nod nod wink wink" attitude that annoyed me. Dorks not getting any have to turn it into a "social experiment" in order to get their jollies? Didn't they do that sort of thing in the Sixties?

In any case, my 13-year old's boobies will stay home from cons, if that sort of thing is gonna happen.

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

The boob thing ... meh. I'm definitely having trouble working up a whole lot of righteous indignation over it. To me, it seems like way more fuss than the whole thing deserves. However, if it gets people talking about sexual harassment and making positive steps towards making women safer at cons, that's a good thing.

I did think this was an excellent and balanced post on the subject, though, and helped me understand why people are as upset about it as they are, while not demonizing either side.

[pixiewildflower.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[hailerro.livejournal.com]

Illustrators Partnership?

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

AHA! I knew it! That other product IS going to be real! Excellent.