and now for something a little more serious

[ciel_vert]

Coming from an academic background, I get really annoyed when I see sneaky/poor research being done. Not to mention research that is vaguely threatening to the groups it purports to be "trying" to "understand".

Please read this post by the mods of kink_bingo, and don't do that survey that's going around. The one with this banner:



I repeat, don't do that survey! And if you have already, it sounds like there's a way that you can go back in and change/delete all of your answers. Thanks to silentdescant for the heads up on twitter. Unlocked so everyone gets the message. Feel free to pass the link to the kink_bingo mod post around.

ETA: It appears that they took the survey down to "edit" and "improve" it. Bullshit. Either way, don't take it when it inevitably re-surfaces.

Comments

[escherzo.livejournal.com]

Their idiocy in the responses in that post are just--I've got nothing. The research is bad, the whole thing is sketchy, and I am very glad they are getting the smackdown they deserve courtesy of fandom.

[ciel-vert.livejournal.com]

I haven't looked, as I really don't want to be tempted to comment, and I've heard tell that they're tracking IP addresses and I don't even want to get in the middle of something that sketchy. :\