WisCon Rumble!

So Jezebel referred me to a massive Internet war going on between an SA splinter group (SASS) and a group of feminist science fiction types, which apparently tends to mean fat and on the lesbian side, not that there is anything wrong with that. But anyway some femgoon attended and wrote up a very snarky post complete with pictures about the ladies at the convention. The pictures were blurred, but there were some incredibly pissed off fat women who decided to KEEP IT REAL, ala Dave Chappelle.

How real? Well, they:

a) found out where she worked and tried to get her fired.
b) found out where she was attending grad school and tried to get her expelled
c) found her parents phone number and started making harassing phone calls
d) made Internet threats to her life

Internet, serious business indeed. Somehow Jezebel ignores the vicious retaliation to do some bs generalizations and stereo-typings of their own in some pseudo-psychological analysis of the femgoon. Apparently the femgoon is a bulimic, or something like that, according to SASS. Her messed up body image probably has a lot to do with the most vitriolic comments, not some general anti-fat feeling among disillusioned suburban kids, or whatever noice Jezebel was spewing. But honestly, who cares what some random people on the Internet think of you? Trying to ruin someone’s life for some stupid post on SA is absolutely disgusting.

SASS thread

Jezebel