I think that LJ provides us with a middle ground, a kind of privatelypublic space, that doesn't have a good analogy to either the pre-LJ fannish environment, or real world geography.

I know what I'm fucking talking about when I say that unconscious racism is so much less prevalent than outright sexism in this fandom's fanfiction.

\"I know that everybody is doing this and I know that judging the book by its cover (kind of) is pointless and not wise BUT it's so much fun for me that I cannot resist.\" [HP]