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Apr. 10th, 2010 04:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
noracharlesI'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]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fangasmic, which is a huge improvement! Thank you ![[staff profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png)
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?
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
fangasmic, which is a huge improvement! Thank you 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?
Re: Also a beginner in ablism awareness.
Date: 2010-04-12 05:07 am (UTC)(I have, in medical discussions of cerebral palsy. But medical language is its own rarified beast, and even medical professionals are becoming aware of stigma around certain labels and their non-medical meanings.)