Thursday 9 March 2023

Invisible lesbians

Quote from Radio 4 today:  'Let's make lesbians visible again'.

Just a quick note about comments - I still read all of your posts, but I don't very often leave a comment on a blog where moderation has been switched on, and I am getting better at remembering which sites use it. Just saying.

32 comments:

  1. That leads down a dark tunnel, how do you mark them? I have decided to die ignorant of the fact that everyone has a different pronoun. Can you all wear little badges to distinguish yourselves please if you are serious about marking your sex/gender/or whatever known to others.

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  2. I don't even know what you mean by 'moderation has been switched on' and at my age I just can't cope with finding out. So please keep 'pally' with me - I enjoy our contact.

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  3. Well, I'm new here so it probably doesn't apply.
    I've laughed out loud twice in the reading of your post...thanks for that.
    hugs
    Donna...and yes, I'm a hugger.

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  4. I liked it so much better when everyone just got along. Strife over nothing seems a waste of time and effort.

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    1. What I am talking about has nothing to do with strife.

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  5. I always read your posts Tom.

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  6. Well, that will keep my brain working - still wondering, Tom, not sure I got the pun.
    Here in Germany journalists, ministries, administration, publishers and other moral police are going crazy: since 2019 law is demanding (!) that a job offer is written as "m/f/d" (male/female/non-binary). Can you imagine that many newspapers etc demand, mandatory, the one writes: "Lehrer*Innen", or "Lehrer_Innen" or "Lehrer:Innen"?" (when they speak TV reporters make a pause between "Lehrer * Innen".
    Imagine "teacher*esses" for your lovely language.
    Honestly it is very difficult to read or listen to - every time!!! - , "tarsam", as Georgie Pillson from "Queen Lucia" would say - but even such an innocent remark of the wonderful gay author E.F.Benson might nowadays be looked upon with distrust - is he mocking "somebody*esses" because of his/*its/her gender???

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    1. I have a non-binary grand daughter. I can't keep up either.

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  7. Well, I for one had no clue that they had been invisible. I'd like to learn that trick myself. Can non-lesbians learn how to do this as well?

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  8. A fast car and a ticket to anywhere.

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  9. It's a long time since I listened to radio 4...what on earth was the programme about?!

    Tom I keep comment moderation on...rest assured that ordinary comments do get published....but filtering out the unpleasant, the spam, the downright rude, the selling links....that's why people keep it on

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    1. It was the closing line by a the latest presenter on Woman's Hour. I didn't hear the rest.
      I don't really care if my comments get published in absentia or not, and I never find out anyway. If I get unpleasant comments I just delete them. Easy. It's not your problem, it's mine.

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  10. I keep moderation on to eliminate the spam - and also because of my books I get a lot of comments that don't relate to the blog at all; I tend to reply direct to them but not publish. All 'normal' comments always get published.

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    1. And you almost never reply to any comments left on your own blog. You protest too much.

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    1. It’s not a big effort all told

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    2. What are you on about now? Another explanation might be of some use. Jesus, for a man who loves all comments except from arseholes, you are the last person to turn on moderation.

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  12. How did we drift from lesbians being visible to moderation being on/off? Don't force me to "read only" and never comment on your blog..

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    1. It wasn't so much as a drift, more of a swerve. I would never do that. I like your comments.

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  13. I haven't commented for a while as there is so much going on here ! I don't have moderation switched on so you don't have any excuses on my blog 🤣. XXXX

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    1. I know you don't, Jack@. You haven't been posting much recently, but neither have I.

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  14. I think my blog is probably too boring to attract trolls or assholes, and even if it did, I don't really care too much. They're the ones saying the offensive stuff, not me, and I'd probably enjoy letting others read what asses they were making of themselves.

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    1. Well if yours is boring, so must mine be. I have never had any real trolls and I find assholes tend to go away if you tell them to and keep deleting them. On the rare occasions when people have said offensive things, I have usually let them stand also to - as you say - show others what cunts they really are. Actually, you didn't say that. I did. Google is very good at filtering out spam these days, to the extent they quite often filter out ordinary comments including my own - on my own posts. To hell with comment moderation. It's a form of self indulgence.

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  15. Maybe we could just make comment moderation invisible? (I'll get my coat...)

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    1. It usually is. That's why I keep forgetting who uses it.

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