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October 17th, 2007
06:59 am
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mskatej: Don't tell me who I am. - kalpurna goes on to say://"Nobody who reads or writes slash isn't a little bit queer."//I'm not quite sure how a statement like that helps straight fen feel more comfortable in fandom. Essentially she's telling us that we don't know ourselves -
- em_h: I don't think I can even summarize what' - As a semi-professional Christian, I feel like I need to say something to some of my co-religionists out there. What I need to say is, Eat it, dudes. -
- kali921: Yes, it's an entry about recent happenings in fandom re: antisemitism and cultural privilege. - Turning around and accusing people who read your words differently than you intend as being "oversensitive" is simply not, in my mind, a defensible moral or intellectual position. -
- trascendenza: Questions/advice for deciding community content and focus - Deciding the focus of the community can be challenging, especially when on is unsure how many will join and what sort of content will be posted, but I think it's best to do it right away. -
- bad_goth: Fandom,sometimes you suck. And you suck hard (in a very bad way). - There's something under the surface of fandom, and sometimes it abruptly surfaces, and thrashes around, and hurts people. This time, it's anti-Semitism. Last time, it was racism. Sometimes, it's misogyny or homophobia, etc. It's always there -
- sidewalk_doctor: moar fandom meta, bitches - Yes, I do agree that your primary motivation to write fic, make art, etc. should be your own personal enjoyment. Us creative people are masochists that way. But if you were doing it solely for ourselves, then why post it at all? -
- traveller: [the category is: wretch fannish neologisms] - but lately? I get the impression from a lot of people that if a story is at any time contradicted by canon, it becomes worthless. or worth less, anyway. -
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fairestcat: Wednesday, October 17, 2007
- ataniell93: That damn kerfuffle - Yuletide is not in any way neutral terminology. It's referring either to Christmas, which is a Christian holiday, or Yule, which is a Pagan holiday. -
- cimorene111: This accidentally turned into an abstract post on racism, dialogue and the Yuletide controversy - To put it another way, the most fundamental characteristic of culture is its ability to make itself seem natural, logical, unchangeable, and taken for granted by its members. -
- twistedchick: I'm seeing a lot of the logical fallacy - I'm seeing a lot of the logical fallacy of the excluded middle these days, online and elsewhere. -
- wemyss: Sense rather than mere sensibility - What is fatal is to couch what ought to be rational arguments in the nursery terms of "I'm offended by what you said to the OP" and "Well, I'm offended that you're offended", of "You're not merely thoughtless, you're a knowing anti-Semite" -
- snorkackcatcher: In which I draw a strained analogy between Fandom and Art - there are people with a take analogous to that of our Mr Jones. It's the most important subject, it's what fanfic is Really For, and writers who choose other subjects for their fic or write ratings below R are pursuing an inherently lesser and artisticall -
- carmarthen: Romantic friendships and changing expectations - The more I learn about history, the fewer social trends I see as anything but transitory--we don't need to accept the "truth" that women are untrustworthy and shallow. We know we're not.//And that's why I like fandom. -
- executrix: Meta: The Fanbian Continuum - But what I don't agree with is positing that fanspace is queer because women are engaging in virtual sexual acts by offering material to arouse other women. -
- kyuuketsukirui: Writing as a hobby - There is nothing stopping anyone from writing original fic instead of or in addition to fanfic, and I sincerely encourage anyone who wants to do so, but the fact is people enjoy writing fanfic. It's not because we've been brainwashed into thinking it's al -
- etrangere: Gender of writing, Chick Lit and Fantasy - I had two agendas with this thread : pointing out the sexism in calling some books Chick Lit in order to dismiss their quality, and questionning which specific images and idiosyncracies were associated with which gender and why. -
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lonelywalker.livejournal.com: Tuesday, 17th Octover, 2007