PheonixRising opened this issue on Feb 09, 2004 ยท 52 posts
nomuse posted Tue, 10 February 2004 at 1:41 PM
I'd never heard this coinage before but on reflection I should have seen it coming. I grew up, after all, when "Fans were Slans" (to paraphrase a quote). I never liked drawing a line, especially one that puts "us" as the tiny-misunderstood-minority-that's-really-so-much-smarter-than-everyone-else people. As the t-shirt joke goes, "There are 10 kinds of people in the world -- those that understand binary and those that don't." I don't care what the label is; muggle or normal or turkey or 'dane....it is unfair and dismissive and can lead to a dangerous false sense of superiority. It is useful, however, to have language to talk about that moment when somene asks "So how DO you do art on a computer?" (Or worse yet; "what are all those naked people doing on your computer?") Just use it in good humor and don't be too serious about it! (Heck, as far as the nakies go, everyone I know with a life drawing/anatomy background sketches the nude first, then adds clothes. It's easier to do it that way. But some of the people looking over your shoulder get a little, "Um....is this gonna be a nude?") Pre-coffee post. Rambling enough for you?