Comments on: Welcome, Snarky’s Machine!

By: Thalia

Thalia — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:15:43 +0000

Whoa, a 'rabid Barney Miller fan!' That makes me feel so much saner as a 'rabid Monkees fan' myself. I mean for serious and for true. See, even the incidental stuff here is healing. (And make no mistake, that is, bottom line, what this site is.) Not to mention, OMG SNARKY'SMACHINE is here! Yay!!! It's like Santa actually brought us that pony!

By: NatureGrrrl

NatureGrrrl — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:15:00 +0000

Yippee to the addition of Snarky’s Machine!!! I also have to say that I LOVE the drawing that I believe Fillyjonks did for your “profile” picture. It turned out beautifully! :)Congrats again!!!

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:01:12 +0000

Oh, wow — this blog just keeps getting better and better!

By: Havoc

Havoc — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:51:20 +0000

I know it’s a little late, but, yay! Congratulations!

By: liberalandproud

liberalandproud — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:14:09 +0000

I love that Snarky’s Machine came onboard officially on my mom’s birthday. Welcome, you awesome purveyor of awesomeness!

By: siwangmu

siwangmu — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:22:55 +0000

You are welcome! (That’s the civilized version of moderator thanked me squeeee) I’m very relieved that I was neither alone in my thinking nor out of line in expressing it. I sincerely love that this is a place where we can express respectful disagreement and have it actually mean something and/or get resolved because everyone has good intentions (see for example the edifying short-lived dustup between snarkysmachine and alibelle–Topic!)

By: kitrona

kitrona — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:33:27 +0000

Yay and welcome! Now we have FIVE awesome bloggers to read! I hope I can keep up. :)

By: Kate Harding

Kate Harding — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:59:31 +0000

Side note on the thread: I’m not super comfortable with saying “it’s just Asia,” even when we are discussing systemic, widely attested phenomena. It’s not a monolith, you know?

Thanks for that, Siwangmu. I’m just catching up on comments, and I’m glad someone made that point.

By: Siwangmu

Siwangmu — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:53:14 +0000

Nina, welcome! From another recent delurker. It’s awesome that you’re here, and I have much sympathy for your story. I did want to make a small comment on word choice, though–

“Most of the women at my office are on strict diets, even though they’re anorexically thin. I hope that I can learn enough from this blog to help people become aware that sizeism is not okay.”

“Anorexically thin” is a totally understandable thing to be thinking in that situation, but I’m not sure it’s the description you’re looking for. We can’t know they have an ED from their size, and you probably wouldn’t be casual about it if they did. I think you already get that, which is why I quoted the next sentence, too, but it seemed worth mentioning.

Side note on the thread: I’m not super comfortable with saying “it’s just Asia,” even when we are discussing systemic, widely attested phenomena. It’s not a monolith, you know?

On topic: WOO snarkysmachine! What a brilliant further embiggening of shapely prose!

By: Anita

Anita — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:20:34 +0000

Hot fucking awesome with extra buttered awesome and a pony on top.

This has made my day.