February 6th, 2011

12:27 am

seperis: well, yeah, if by geek culture you mean men - The days when geek culture belonged to the urban middle class male is over; we all own it now. Don't look like that; we're not saying you have to leave. See, we like to share. That's kind of the entire point. -
(tags: geek-culture)

thingswithwings: how to defend against accusations of hating queers - [...] the way these creators are all huge fucking cowards who aren't brave enough to write a queer character into their children's book, their tv show, their novel; huge fucking cowards who blame the episode running long or the whims of the story itself [...] for the fact that queerness is reduced to subtextual or extratextual appearances; -
(tags: media sexuality subtext canon sga bsg hp lost)

sparkindarkness: Ok a rant about LGBTQ representation – and why hints don’t cut it - No, it’s not enough. Your hot men who have what may be a lingering look or touched each other a little longer than you thought was strictly necessary or y’know are just “so gay together” do NOT count as GBLTQ representation. -
(tags: slash fandom subtext media)

seperis: well, yeah, if by geek culture you mean men - The days when geek culture belonged to the urban middle class male is over; we all own it now. Don't look like that; we're not saying you have to leave. See, we like to share. That's kind of the entire point. -
(tags: geek-culture)

thingswithwings: how to defend against accusations of hating queers - [...] the way these creators are all huge fucking cowards who aren't brave enough to write a queer character into their children's book, their tv show, their novel; huge fucking cowards who blame the episode running long or the whims of the story itself [...] for the fact that queerness is reduced to subtextual or extratextual appearances; -
(tags: media sexuality subtext canon sga bsg hp lost)

sparkindarkness: Ok a rant about LGBTQ representation – and why hints don’t cut it - No, it’s not enough. Your hot men who have what may be a lingering look or touched each other a little longer than you thought was strictly necessary or y’know are just “so gay together” do NOT count as GBLTQ representation. -
(tags: slash fandom subtext media)