.@pnh Basically, I think the wailing abt steampunk is same fucking misogynism in new clothes. Girls like it, it must suck. @ArachneJericho
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Replying to @matociquala
@matociquala Could I get a link to some representative wailing?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime
@chaosprime We were arguing with@cstross. *g* (I don't think he's misogynist: I think the meme is misogynist.)3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @matociquala
@matociquala@chaosprime See, I don’t get the whole “steampunk has GURL COOTIES” thing. I mean, where does THAT come from?!?4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @cstross
@cstross Damned if I know. But as with UF, many successful steampunk writers are women.@chaosprime2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @matociquala
@matociquala@cstross@chaosprime Steampunk is about giggle titter ROMANCE and CORSETS and PARASOLS and NOTHING ELSE MATTERS.4 replies 2 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @seananmcguire
@seananmcguire@matociquala@cstross@chaosprime Steampunk is about building machines out of gears and flywheels: http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @ElizabethJPetro
@ElizabethJPetro@seananmcguire@matociquala@cstross The Foglios call GG "gaslamp fantasy". Exceedingly good call.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime
@ElizabethJPetro@seananmcguire@matociquala@cstross "Gee whiz gears & airships!" can be fun, but calling it anything-"punk" is disgusting.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime
@chaosprime@ElizabethJPetro@seananmcguire@cstross punk has become an affix meaning genre, alas. And some is SF, not F.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@matociquala @ElizabethJPetro @seananmcguire @cstross Applying "-punk" to doe-eyed jingoism is a horrific enough cooptation to oppose.
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Replying to @chaosprime
@chaosprime@ElizabethJPetro@seananmcguire@cstross because what I write is definitely naive, doe eyed jingoism.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @matociquala
@matociquala@ElizabethJPetro@seananmcguire@cstross Certainly it is not. Genre and subculture (oh god the subculture) still awash in it.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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