Re: TERM chartering and the April incidents

[Dan Harkins <[e-mail]>]

On 4/4/21 4:27 AM, [e-mail] wrote:
> 1. An unknown person submitted the "Les White" drafts. I believe one was announced on the GENDISPATCH mailing list.
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> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-les-white-intersectional-dots-00
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> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-les-white-tls-preferred-pronouns-00
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> I need to stress that, despite also having the initials LW and any misguided assumptions to the contrary, I am NOT Les White. I did not write those drafts. I have better spelling, I have better writing, and I have better, more fleshed out, ideas that don't fall back on lazy tropes. And I'll take the credit and copyright for my own writing, because I'm proud of the work I put in to create it.
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> I did not know of or write those "Les White" drafts, I don't know who did, and I don't need to know. But the author of the "Les White drafts is not me.

   I wrote them. If anyone thought that "LW" meant it was you, I apologize.
I settled on "Les White" after Coke decided to tell its employees to be
"less white". I had no idea you were writing an April Fools draft so "LW"
was just a coincidence.

   Yes, you write better and your ideas are more mature and fleshed out.
Mine were rushed, it started as one draft, I got a bee in my bonnet about
pronouns and split out another. Neither one got the attention they deserved.

   Dan.

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