Nothing to do with OTW or even fandom but rather IRL.

(If not, can we bring this topic up on a forum somewhere? Or would someone write a paper on it?–I’d publish that on TFF…)

she doesn’t quite get it yet, because she’s getting a lot of attention, and that’s always flattering to your sense of self-importance. but what if you threw a shitfit and no one came?

oh, this is good: i think the wiscon committee should go out of their way to invite her to go around the usual panel process and put together the panel herself. give her one of the big ballrooms for good measure, you know the ones where you freeze your ass off and, even when they’re full, you feel like you’re rattling around in there like dried peas?

and watch the audience fail (fandom) to trickle in.

If you think warrantless late night searches and being roughed up by cops in their own home do not happen to mothers in America over parenting issues then — to use a phrase often used by Fail Fandom — you should educate yourself.

I get tired of veiled threats by the school district to report us to Child Protective Services on the basis that my son is skinny because I can’t manage to get him to complete his homework.

She’s also dropped hints elsewhere that she interacted with the police about her children on some recent occasion.

i kinda have to wonder if her grasp (as brilliant as it is, i’m sure) of feminist theory includes anyone who might not be, you know, white.

(Frontal lobe injuries damage impluse control, but not intellect, and I actually think it would be generous to assume this woman had posted the piece in question as a result of writing out random thoughts and feelings and then being unable to control the urge to post that!:)

*I do not personally know Ms. Bradford and am not now, nor have I ever been, in her sock drawer.