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Nora Charles ([personal profile] noracharles) wrote2010-04-10 04:08 pm

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I'm one of the editors of the White Collar Roundup - I collect the White Collar content posted to dreamwidth.

That's how I first came across the comm then called fanspastic. The name offended me, and I hated linking to content on a comm like that, but I want our newsletter to be inclusive, and I'll link to everything regardless of my personal feelings about its authors.

Now the comm has been renamed to [community profile] fangasmic, which is a huge improvement! Thank you [staff profile] mark for taking care of that before renaming is officially possible.

I went to look at the comm, thinking the mods might just be ignorant, and maybe it's not a horrible place after all. LOL, wrong.

Is using the word "spaz" in the mod post explaining the rename supposed to be ironic, and do the mods think that it is therefore funny?
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[personal profile] zvi 2010-04-10 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
The issue is that the term as a technical term, for someone with tremors of whatever kind, is rare outside of, maybe, medical circles, maybe disability circles in the United States. It's like, oh, spindles in fairytales. Lots of people know that Sleeping Beauty pricked her finger on a spindle, a lot fewer people have any conception of what a spindle does and why it might be on a spinning wheel. heck, I'm not sure how much there is general knowledge of what a spinning wheel is for, except (not) turning straw into gold.