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authorOwen Jacobson <owen.jacobson@grimoire.ca>2014-05-28 16:11:01 -0400
committerOwen Jacobson <owen.jacobson@grimoire.ca>2014-05-28 16:11:01 -0400
commitb0c376d2a7ded722cd49f88e515c53632ec75730 (patch)
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parent693eec80b65299ff679a458bb7039d656ece550f (diff)
Typographic fixes around double quotes.
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-rw-r--r--wiki/people/rape-culture-and-men.md20
-rw-r--r--wiki/people/rincewind.md6
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/wiki/people/rape-culture-and-men.md b/wiki/people/rape-culture-and-men.md
index 0a02066..ca97504 100644
--- a/wiki/people/rape-culture-and-men.md
+++ b/wiki/people/rape-culture-and-men.md
@@ -2,20 +2,20 @@
In the last couple of years, I've been interacting with folks who take a more
active hand in gender and social issues, and it's changed the way I see the
-word "rape". It didn't entirely make sense to me how so many people could be
+word “rape.” It didn't entirely make sense to me how so many people could be
self-identified victims of rape culture while so few people are, even in a
euphemistic way, identifiable as rapists, so I dug a bit at my assumptions.
Growing up immersed in what I now recognize as the early stages of modern
-"news" culture, rape was always reported as a violent act. Something so black
+“news” culture, rape was always reported as a violent act. Something so black
and white that if you committed rape, you would know yourself to be a rapist.
Media descriptions of rape and of rapists focussed on acts of overt violence:
-"she was in the wrong neighbourhood and got raped at knifepoint", "held down
-and raped", and so on.
+“she was in the wrong neighbourhood and got raped at knifepoint,” “held down
+and raped,” and so on.
-Reading more recent postings on the idea of "rape culture", however, paints a
-very different picture of the same word. "Raped at a party", "too drunk to
-consent", and other depictions of rape as an act of exploitation (or,
+Reading more recent postings on the idea of “rape culture,” however, paints a
+very different picture of the same word. “Raped at a party,” “too drunk to
+consent,” and other depictions of rape as an act of exploitation (or,
appallingly, convenience or indifference) rather than violence.
Let me be perfectly clear here: without _active consent_, any sexual contact
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ is rape or is on the road to it. In that sense, violence, exploitation,
intoxication and other forms of coercion are interchangeable and equally vile.
However, when the public idea of rape is limited to rapes with overt violence,
-it's really easy to excuse non-violent coerced sex as "not really rape". After
+it's really easy to excuse non-violent coerced sex as “not really rape.” After
all, you didn't hit her, did you? She never said _no_ and _meant it_, right?
I don't know what I'm going to do with this insight, yet, but I think it's an
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ already have.
Relevant reading:
-* ["My friend group has a case of Creepy Dude", by Captain
+* [“My friend group has a case of Creepy Dude,” by Captain
Awkward](http://captainawkward.com/2012/08/07/322-323-my-friend-group-has-a-case-of-the-creepy-dude-how-do-we-clear-that-up/)
(which also reminded me that it's possible to be a creep to your girlfriend)
-* ["Meet the Predators", from the fantastic Yes Means Yes](http://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/meet-the-predators/), cited in the Captain Awkward article but worth a read on its own well-researched merits.
+* [“Meet the Predators,” from the fantastic Yes Means Yes](http://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/meet-the-predators/), cited in the Captain Awkward article but worth a read on its own well-researched merits.
diff --git a/wiki/people/rincewind.md b/wiki/people/rincewind.md
index 23c7c25..7dbc202 100644
--- a/wiki/people/rincewind.md
+++ b/wiki/people/rincewind.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ capable of magic.
Rincewind is a wizard: he is not well fed, having spent his life being thrust
from one adventure to the next; his body is more attuned for running away
from things than it is for meandering the halls or sitting by a fire; his
-opinions largely revolve around "is this new thing going to eat me," rather
+opinions largely revolve around “is this new thing going to eat me,” rather
than more abstract matters; importantly, he is completely incapable of magic,
in spite of years of study.
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ back, while she was teaching herself to program. I don't recall exactly what
prompted it, but at one point I told her to stop worrying about all the
better programmers out there: from everyone else's point of view, she was
already a wizard. There might be better wizards, and worse wizards, but she'd
-already passed any sort of bright line delimiting "not a programmer" from
-"programmer".
+already passed any sort of bright line delimiting “not a programmer” from
+“programmer.”
I think self-identification is important, and overlooked.