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lederhosen ([personal profile] lederhosen) wrote2008-04-24 08:53 am

I don't get it.

I don't get all the fuss about the 'Open Source Boob Project' business.

Don't get me wrong, I agree that it's skeezy and obnoxious and all. I just don't get why Some Guy On LJ being skeezy at a con is suddenly provoking such a flurry of posting, because my understanding is that there are lots of skeezy people on LJ - quite a few of whom go to cons - and generally it doesn't attract anywhere near this level of attention. If it was Orson Scott Card or somebody else famous (or even Brendan Nelson) I could understand, but not this.

(I think what this boils down to is that a lot of people seem to view the originator of the concept as a Somebody, and I've never figured out what makes him any more noteworthy than all the other folk on LJ who have opinions and aren't afraid to post them. Therefore I just write him off under the "lots of people are idiots" umbrella category.)

[identity profile] lirion.livejournal.com 2008-04-23 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Someone mentioned this to me last night.
Until then, I'd not heard anything about it.
my little corner of lj is blessedly free of this particular drama it appears.

[identity profile] shadow-5tails.livejournal.com 2008-04-24 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Yours too, huh?

I've seen one other post obliquely referring to it and saying they weren't dignifying it by getting involved, but other'n that I'm blissfully oblivious...