2009-08-26

bossymarmalade: jc chasez wants to know if you ever wonder why (j'accuse!)
2009-08-26 08:52 am
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how about, "handsome homer simpson plus three"?

I always thought that in an *nsync Beatles AU, JC would be Lennon and Justin would be McCartney (JC more experimental, Justin more schmaltz, etc.), but after reading the article linked in popsoundboard I see I will have to revise that opinion! Did I ever mention how much I love when people (including Rolling Stone people) write fanfic about how their favourite member of a band is an angel martyr baby, cruelly abused by all the other band members? Because I love it SO MUCH.

Wow, me -- what's with the popslashy posts lately?
bossymarmalade: lisa simpson is determined (yet another cause to champion)
2009-08-26 09:27 am
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the red dress press

Also, more seriously:

[livejournal.com profile] waywardradish runs a site on Wordpress for survivors of "holding therapy", a physically and emotionally abusive practice performed mostly on already-vulnerable children. Her site, A Search for Survivors, provides a place for people who have experienced this abuse to give testimony about what happened to them.

Wordpress has not only been attempting to suspend the site to appease disgruntled practitioners of this abusive "therapy", but its representative has used lies, intimidation, and threats of silencing in his dealings with Waywardradish.

Please take a moment to let that sink in: he is taunting an abuse survivor with the power he holds over her & other survivors' ability to testify to their suffering.

[livejournal.com profile] copperbadge provides a sample e-mail to send to Wordpress in protest:
So please, feel free to email them again at tosreports@wordpress.com to -- politely and courteously -- request that they stop interfering with the journal. No specific subject line is needed. As a text, I suggest:

I strongly protest your continued interference with the Wordpress journal childtorture.wordpress.com. It is a vital and invaluable resource for holding therapy survivors. The documentation it presents includes firsthand experiences, eyewitness accounts, and news, medical, and legal documents available to the public.

In suspending and/or removing this journal you are doing both the community and your own public image a severe disservice.

Holding therapy is abusive and lethal and aimed at children, who have no voice. Please give abuse survivors back their voice.


Please do consider sending Wordpress an e-mail about this, and/or dropping a comment of support to Waywardradish. Thank you!