I did get a laugh out of the description of Ellynne, Mistral, et al., as slashers. But--
Enough is enough. I am sick and tired of the ongoing harassment of this entire list by an ugly little troll and her friends or sock puppets or whatever they are. Not all of us have the expertise to set up a killfile, and in any case some of us prefer to get the list in digest form, for which killfiles don't work.
At the end of this post I will insert the academic resume of Fiona Moore, which I found at http://www.redrival.com/nyder/resume.html.
Please note that it is posted on a site available to the general public, presumably in order to advertise Fiona's qualifications; I am not doing anything improper in quoting it. This is the very same website given in the signature at the end of the appalling newsgroup post that Annie alerted us to.
If the misbehavior of Fiona and her associates does not stop, then I suggest that we all start complaining-- politely-- to the University of Oxford, particularly the faculty of anthropology and the Fellows of St. Cross College. If she is using the university's computers to harass us, then they are partly responsible.
Furthermore, I think is professionally unethical for the university to permit this person to participate in any kind of field work or research involving human subjects. Would those German businessmen have consented to be interviewed if they knew that the interviewer was in the habit of arranging for people whose views she disagreed with to be deluged with offensive e- mail?
We might also make some polite complaints, as fellow fans, to the OU Doctor Who Society, of which Fiona is apparently president, according to their website at: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~whosoc/ouwho.html.
And I'd very much like to know what connection Alan Stevens has to all this nastiness. Fiona says on her resume that she is his employee, and in her filthy little "comedy" newsgroup that he is her boyfriend:
So am I, for the most part-- my boyfriend writes and produces "unauthorised" fan audios </shameless advert>, and I'm no stranger to ripping the piss out of certain programmes myself.
So, what does Alan say? What, exactly, is the nature of his association with this horrible woman and her attacks on B7 fans? I would really like to know, because it affects my decision as to whether I purchase another issue of =Zenith=-- or anything else he is involved in.
Has Alan or anyone else started up another B7 list recently? Is that the meaning of the exhortations to join a "proper" B7 list? If so, I suggest we start forwarding Jenny's obnoxious posts to whatever list she is recommending that we join.
Here follows Fiona's resume, from her website. I suspect that the "handbag" business may be some sort of drag queen slang, picked up from her research on that topic. Perhaps it means something like, "Ooh, you hit me with your handbag, you mean ole fing, but it didn't hurt 'cause you're such a sissy."
And my interpretation of the "animal camouflage" line is that it is intended to be a threat, something along the lines of: "You SLASHERS [here defined as 'anyone who disagrees with Fiona Moore about anything whatsoever'] are pretending to be normal, ordinary people; but I, the mighty hunter, see through your camouflage, and I'm going to sic my big bad boyfriend Alan Stevens on you."
By the way: I hereby notify anyone who is considering harassing me with offensive personal e-mail related to this matter that I will not consider such communications to be private ones and will reserve the right to repost them to the entire Lyst, and/or to Fiona Moore's academic supervisors.
Sarah
Fiona Moore: Resume
Fiona Moore B.A. (Hon.), Toronto; B.A., Oxon; M.Phil, Oxon.
Education University of Toronto (Victoria College) 1993-1997 University of Oxford (St Cross College) 1997-
Other Training Social Sciences Fieldwork Methods Course, Oxford, 1999 Supervisory Training Course, Fort Henry, 1997 Business and Customer Service Course, Fort Henry, 1996
Skills Three years' experience in conducting research in corporations Interviewing and analysis skills Extensive teaching experience Fluent French and German linguistic abilities Wordperfect 8 MS Word ME Lotus Suite HTML programming
Employment Production Manager Alan Stevens Audio Drama Productions, London, 2000-2001
German Translator and Research Assistant Shirley Ardener (Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford),1999
Research Assistant Dr Louella Matsunaga (University of Oxford), 1999
Domestic Interpreter with Linguistic Capabilities (French, German) Fort Henry (Kingston, Ont.), 1996-1997
Research Assistant Prof. R.B. Lee, University of Toronto (Toronto, Ont.), 1996
Archaeological Assistant Parks Canada (Cornwall, Ont.), 1994-1995
Voluntary Work Friends of the Cross-Cultural Centre for Research on Women 1999-
Common Room Committee, St Cross College 1997-2000
University of Toronto Women's Centre 1993-1997
Publications
"When Worlds Collide: British Bureaucracy Meets German Bureaucracy in the Global Financesphere." (Forthcoming)
"Viva: an Initiation Ritual." Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford (Forthcoming)
"Vorsprung Durch Sales Technique: Stereotypes, Strategies and Identities in a 'Global' City." Oxford: ESRC Transnational Communities Project Working Papers Series, 2000 (also available at http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk).
"We Live Above the Earth: Expressions of Identity among German Business Expatriates." Paper presented at Warwick University School of Business, March 2000
"Why the Lady is a Tramp: Analysing Drag Performance." Paper presented at QTN Conference, 24-27 Jun 1998, Toronto
"Purty Legs and Great Big Knockers: Drag Performance, Gender and Empowerment." Drag Queen International 12 (Spring 1998), pp. 26-44
"Friends and Co-Workers: Community among Government Workers in Cornwall, Ont." Vis-a-Vis (Fall 1997)
Awards An Academic Distinction from the University of Oxford (1999) SSHRC Postgraduate Fellowship (1999- ) ORS Award (1998) Northrop Frye Gold Medal for Academic Excellence (1997) D.O. Robson Scholarship (1997) Joseph Wesley McCallum Scholarship (1996) The MacNeice Scholarship (1995) Dr Augusta Stowe Gullen Scholarship (1994) Janet Jarrett Memorial Scholarship (1994) University of Toronto Faculty In-Course Scholarships (1994-1997) Named to Dean's Honours List (1994-1997) Charles Bruce Sissons Entrance Scholarship (1993)