User talk:Rendsworld

Just by way of clarification my name is not Rend, as this seems to have been misunderstood - I am Melissa Gibson and I live in Cambridge UK. I do not blog myself and am grateful to blogs like rendsworld and sites like the King Center. Should I edit my details and start again so as not to confuse anyone? Co-editors should refer to me as Melissa please, not Rend - which just adds to everyone's confusion.

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Coretta Scott King

 * 1) Feel free to post comments here. I quote: If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly or redistributed by others, do not submit it. No comments submitted or deleted by me will be used for self-promotion or any reason other than to make contributions to the task at hand. This should not be misunderstood by anyone.
 * 2) On Coretta, I knew Coretta Scott King and was deeply inspired by her work and continue to be so inspired. I doubt very much that she will have approved of the UK music industry or the football industry in terms of their issues regarding feminism and women's rights.
 * 3) I have had to remove this posting several times on the basis of self-promotion. It is completely inappropriate to use Coretta Scott King's name to promote the UK Grammy Awards. "Paul McCartney joined Jay-Z and Linkin Park onstage at the 2006 Grammy Awards during the latter's performance of their hit "Numb / Encore." They segued into his Beatles' classic "Yesterday" as a picture of King was shown on the screens behind them." Why is this considered so important to the context of this article? As a feminist - as Coretta was a feminist - I see this insertion as highly offensive. So are any references to any football leagues or associations or any other organisations that have a flagrant disregard for women's dignity and rights. However, I have rethought the relevance of the Superbowl entry on the basis that the event had an enormous audience and paid genuine tribute to Coretta Scott King and Rosa Parks. The Paul McCartney entry on the other hand is flagrant self promotion. There are many individual and blog tributes made by actual civil rights campaigners which are more relevant to Coretta's work than the Superbowl and Grammy Awards. The latter simply are using her name to fuel the popularity of multi-million dollar industries that are themselves arguably reinforcing of the kind of oppression and social inequity her work sought to eradicate, while the former are striving to progress her work.

Wiki advice
Dear Melissa -- just FYI, it's generally considered bad form to remove people's comments from your talk page unless they are abusive, a personal attack or you are archiving old comments to a talk page in their entirety. Other editors will tend to assume you're trying to hide something, since most people leave those comments from others. Cheers, BCorr | Брайен

OK -- I'm sorry I'm a newbie - I will make sure that I don't do that anymore and welcome your advice. In fact any advice from seasoned editors is really very welcome - as I'd like to make a productive contribution to this community. Thanks Rendsworld - Mel