proof of shallowness
Aug. 23rd, 2004 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So I chased a link to this site that claims to be about "questioning transgender politics" but is mostly about claiming that all MtFs horrible evil MEN who want to SUBVERT FEMINISM and INVADE WOMYN-ONLY SPACES. And, okay, this is an attitude that vaguely pisses me off, because I'm not one, and I don't want to, and that's just silly. If I wanted to be all exclusionist and go hang out with nothing but women, except that my definition includes womyn-born-morlocksmen, I'd, like, try and start a better girls-only club that's, you know, cooler, instead of trying to change minds by yelling at crusty old lesbians who think A Penis Is Forever.
But anyway. That's not the point I'm going to make here. The point is that this site's design was aggressively horrible - I don't know if it works right on Explorer, but on both Camino and Safari, it was utterly broken, and most of the black body text ran off the tiny little pixel-specified box into the black background. It was so aggressively bad that the combination of the 'zap presentational HTML' and 'zap CSS' bookmarklets still had the text squeezed into tiny little columns. I think that if it worked "right" the text would've been squeezed into a tiny little box, far too tiny to read.
And I'd have been annoyed at the content no matter what it was, because I had to fight to read the thing. Yeah, call me evil and make finding out exactly what kind of evil you're pinning on me utter pain and suffering, thanks, miss "radical feminist".
Presentation matters. Aggressively bad presentation doesn't win you any friends.
But anyway. That's not the point I'm going to make here. The point is that this site's design was aggressively horrible - I don't know if it works right on Explorer, but on both Camino and Safari, it was utterly broken, and most of the black body text ran off the tiny little pixel-specified box into the black background. It was so aggressively bad that the combination of the 'zap presentational HTML' and 'zap CSS' bookmarklets still had the text squeezed into tiny little columns. I think that if it worked "right" the text would've been squeezed into a tiny little box, far too tiny to read.
And I'd have been annoyed at the content no matter what it was, because I had to fight to read the thing. Yeah, call me evil and make finding out exactly what kind of evil you're pinning on me utter pain and suffering, thanks, miss "radical feminist".
Presentation matters. Aggressively bad presentation doesn't win you any friends.
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Date: 2004-08-24 05:13 am (UTC)