#Gatekeeping

It’s so revealing that “gatekeeping” is considered a negative thing in woke circles. Part of my peaking was realising that, yes, some gatekeeping is vital. Ie, gatekeeping of “woman,” of
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Every person who works in PR for TV & film should read this. Obv editors at many publications too. But this kind of PR gatekeeping is keeping talented critics &
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"Language is more than a medium for communication. It’s an instrument of power, a measure of humanity, a map for world-making. It is also never neutral." Nuanced insight on the
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I'm a bit fed up with the whole gatekeeping deal. On one side, there's people that consider others shouldn't be allowed to do something based on meaningless labels.On the other
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Cis people can understand “trans” about as good as a virgin can understand sex. You should therefore value a cis person’s opinion about “trans” as much as you’d value a
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When we think about gatekeeping in scholarship, it is kind of like trying to think about ‘children’s literature’. We have two ill-defined terms that we have to define before we
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A trend is starting. For the longest time, CEDH was seen as an ugly "wrong" way to play EDH, and we were excluded and outcast from many circles and groups.
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We *voted out* an overt racist by the skin of our teeth, replacing him with a slightly more polite racist who helped build the concentration camps all along our Southern
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Gatekeeping, especially for consumer mediums, occupations and consumer identities, is interesting. Gatekeeping, in of itself, to me, is not “good” or “bad”. Gatekeeping is a matter of ability and power
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On the eve of my wife’s surgery I come back with a message for #edh specific but applies to all #mtg: stop treating each other like an enemy. We expend
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I just posted on gatekeeping. I kept out one argument because I think it's the most controversial, and specific, and didn't want it to detract from the others: Passion isn't
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The only person who gets a vote in someone's gender or sexual identity is the person whose identity it is. No exceptions, no caveats.When someone tells you what their identity
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I can’t wait until we stop using “relatability” as a metric for a work’s quality. Most of the time, the audience being catered to is white, straight, cis, etc. The
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We really need to talk about the term “gatekeeping” in #socialwork #fieldeducation. @CSocialWorkEd @SWCARES2 I had never heard this term prior to when I started working in field education. When
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I'm late to the party but this @Slate article by @robyncaplan is SO GOOD: "verification signals a broader shift in content moderation away from *content* and toward *sources*."https://slate.com/technology/2020/12/pornhub-verif
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Re: unpaid jobs in conservation.Do I think that unpaid /pay-to-pay jobs in conservation are gatekeeping? Absolutely.Do I recognize some projects can't support interns etc? Yes, I do.The problem isn't the
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