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Originally Posted by furrygirl
I'm down for working on something like this. How about Seska, Tasty Trixie, Darklady, Violet Blue, or Heather Corinna? Or bigger names like Nina Hartley, Annie Sprinkle, and Tristan Taormino? Has anyone heard of any of these kick-ass women?
The other half is based on protecting women
Nothing confounds the shit out of them like having a porn chick back-sass their perfectly formed notions about how women need someone to protect them from themselves.  |
Very good points! Personally, I have found that a well spoken women in conservative dress that is calm and clear always makes the best "spokesperson" and is commonly received better by a public than her gender counterpart. BUT, I would seriously suggest that there should be a context and manner without militancy, no bashing, no attack style, no overt feminism (you try not to attach additional potential irritants to an already irritable subject to the people you're speaking too hence conservative style and look). Again, its all about the "message in a wrapper". I'm all for a female (s) voice, face, front, whatever. All she/they have to do is step forward.
Which brings me to my next point: As these posts (and the one also going on about labels and metatags is a perfect example) develop themselves into "good rounded ideas" and a seeming general agreement begins to appear, all it takes is someone to step up and begin doing some work on the project that interests them and other people will fall in line to help and support. Don't necessarily need to wait for someone to be "appointed". Like the Nike commercial used to say "Just Do It"! Do the work and then report back here or start a thread asking for feedback and reporting on updates. For example, I'm going to follow up on preliminary emails with FSC re: a webpage that will outline examples in the history and consequences of government (and religious) censorship. If they don't want to host it I'll put it on one of my own mainstream sites. The same can go for the technical subject of tags with someone of that experience. All it takes is contact. Its amazingly easy (and interesting) to reach out and contact people who count and can exert influence. Collect position papers, suggest changes, etc. There are staffs at W3, MS & MSN, Google, and the like whose whole job is to respond to things like this with position papers and the like. Anybody can begin to move them forward by just tickling a little. This is the preliminary or reaguard actions that are needed for any "movement" to be successful. IMHO
Also One More Idea For Individual Action: it has been my experience that reporters are a generally fun, easy going, and approachable group more than willing to exchange info and resources. If you know any or like a particular one's writing, email them and begin to cultivate a relationship that you can feed into down the road. The important point to remember is that one is representing a large group when they speak or write upon these subjects and you/they have the responsibility to always tone down one's personal point of view and soften it to include the larger group's perspective.