Metafandom

Thu, Jan. 28th, 2010, 01:31 am

jerico_cacaw: [365days: Day 23] It's a woman ... - And I'm not a hundred percent sure, but I think the being uncomfortable while reading female characters involved in sex relates to me being able to conceptually self-identify with the female body while feeling alien to the responses/behavior as portrayed in the fic/movie/book -
(tags: fanfic gender asexuality)

kookiety: Can't Buy My LoveI do not always like the fictional women.
Political correctness or sense of obligation, bonds of sisterhood, whatever it is - let me fling it out of the window - I do not like all the women in fiction.
(tags: fanfc gender characters characterization)

inmyriadbits: whoops that got long and thinky about women and stories. Plus meme - IMO, there's no good reason not to write female characters, and lots of valid reasons in favor of the practice. If you do look at yourself and see that you don't, I think it's worth your while to try to figure out why. If you look around and see others not writing, try to understand that, too, rather than attacking them for it. -
(tags: writing gender)

bana05: Black Women, Slash, Fandom, and Canon (Long Meta Is Long) - But ultimately, there is a very present insistence that these women "know their place", and the assumption of these specific subsets of slashers is their "place" is not significant to the narrative, let alone with one of the male leads. -
(tags: slash race gender merlin startrek)

brightfame: We are the stories we tell ... and read - I do wonder whether certain stories are more palatable to some cultures and subcultures than others, and whether the reasons behind that are benign, neutral, or pernicious. Examination of one's literary tastes, both as an individual and as a part of a community, is never a bad thing. -
(tags: reading gender race)

freifraufischer: Slash and Women and Metafandom Discussions - I rather firmly believe that slash, on a meta not an individual level, is anti-gay. -
(tags: slash sexuality glbt)

meri_sefket: A Very Vague Post About Fandom* - One thing I have noticed that seems different to me in this reiteration of the discussion is how many more people this time are stepping up and saying things like "I read/write/vid/create/meta about slash and gen and femslash and het and poly (or of combos of those genres), speaking up for those of us who read across genres and like each for different (or the same) reasons. -
(tags: fandom gen het slash)

merrykk: Female Space and fandom - I'm not hearing the same words - When it comes to contributing to fandom, this worldview can show up in fairly non-flashy ways. When I write stories that focus on male characters, there is obviously an underlying respect for women, but both as individuals and for the entire gender as belonging to the world. That men alone would be a kind of appropriation, ignoring the default setting on the world. -
(tags: fandom gender)

miera_c: What does heteronormativity mean to you? - A lot of people are slinging the word "heteronormative" around these days, but are we all meaning the same thing when we say it? -
(tags: gender sexuality slash het)

magpyr: Half-baked thoughts on the male slash debate - Can't we ditch the m/m debate everybody's so sick of, and talk about the serious lack of femslash in any fandom but The L Word? Why is it so easy for people to see "queer subtext" in a work concerning straight male characters, but not females? Can we look at what is not being written? Gay women, asexuals, genderqueer people,... where the hell are they? -
(tags: femslash sexuality characterization fanfic)

tigresslilly: A Few Questions I Haven't Seen Asked or Answered - Are threesomes considered slash and sometimes m/m or f/f? Does it matter is while the relationship is clearly between three people, there are sometimes scenes between just two of the three characters? Does a mixed gender threesome vs a single gender threesome make a difference? Are there things that are acceptable in a duo that make you cringed when worked into a trio? -
(tags: poly fanfic gender sexuality)

the_jackalope: Rage - Yes, there are shows that don't do females well, but there are so many that do, and so many, many, many awesome female characters out there. -
(tags: fandom gender characters)

acrimonyastraea: Why do women [fill in the blank] - I love reading some meta, and I love analysis along the lines of gender and orientation and feminism... pretty much all the elements of the latest discussions of women writing slash. -
(tags: fandom gender discussions)

freifraufischer also wrote this piece on femslash (http://freifraufischer.livejournal.com/291209.html).