bossymarmalade | now that's market research you can take to the bank -- the *money* bank

So!

linkspam will get you up-to-date if you haven't been following the whole Ogi crap-psych survey fooferaw. For those of you who have been avidly reading the "neuroscientists" commenting with condescending amazement when they learn that:
- many fanfic writers are PROFESSIONAL writers!
- many fandom people are ACADEMICS and know about ethics and methodology!
- many fanfic writers know what a WORD COUNT is!

-- not to mention their astonishment when people who are multiracial/asexual/non-American etc. point out that many of the questions do not apply or are just plain offensive and stupid, you might be interested in checking out the blog of Ogi's compatriot,

saigaddam. In it you will find many enlightening posts! My favourites are:
- when he refers to a woman as a dog
- when he makes one of those dreadful (I'm Indian, I recognize this brand of prejudice well amongst my own) "If they made this movie about *black* people there would have been a protest!" posts
- along those same lines, he draws a derisive comparison between white teenage girl Jonas Brothers fans and black adult female Obama supporters

And my personal favourite, the post where he says that men are stimulated by only visuals, refers to Hollywood whitewashing as an "artistic exaggeration", and refers to gay men as either "lads with different interests" or "NAMBLA members".

So you know, the next time

shaggirl wants to scold us for having what she sniffs is a "knee-jerk reaction to close ranks against researchers" after she's expressly directed them our way, she can goddamn well shove it.

now that's market research you can take to the bank -- the money bank

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