NOTE regarding joining

[flourish]

If you'd like to join the community, go ahead and click 'join' in the profile. We'll accept you, or if not, explain to you why and ask you to stick around and comment and generally get to know everyone. You don't need to stand on ceremony and just subscribe to read it, if you would like to also have the ability to make top-level posts.

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Comments

[birke]

I subscribed instead of joining up because I wasn't sure that I would be contributing to the discussion, and joining a small community is making a commitment. (Okay, it was also because I was shy. But really, I'm not in the feminist communities where you guys were having problems, so I'm not even sure what kind of conversation you want to open up here.)

[flourish]

And there's no problem with that, either :) I was just trying to clarify, because I was informed it was confusing.

[elf]

Did a post go away? I have a potential reference for the comm. It's not directly a feminist thing, but it deals with racism & somewhat with classism, and how "history" is biased. While The Non-Discovery of Australia is handed around as a "humor" post, it's got a lot of truth to it:

The Australian Aborigines were the first people to not discover Australia. There are a number of theories put forward by a number of leading experts as to why this is so. It is generally accepted that the Aborigines failed to discover Australia because they had:

• no guns
• no Bibles
• no diseases such as the plague, small pox, etc.
• no flags
• no title deeds
• no monarch

[flourish]

Uhhh, don't think that one went away! As far as I know we haven't gotten around to posting the reference-gathering post yet. :P

As for the link: Excellent!!

[laughingmedusa]

nudge to lock post. :D