: Thursday, February 21, 2008
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popfantastic: repeat to yourself, it's just a show - I'd like to think fannish discussions of race and gender in particular have also made me better able to identify racism and misogyny in both fictional and non-fictional realms. -- emily_shore: A tangent about race in sci-fi: the Ferengi - What surprised me so much about this concept was the fact that my family and I had always interpreted the Ferengi--far from being specifically Jewish--as satires on white western capitalist society as a whole. In short, they were "us," whether us was the -
- thassalia: Three Day Weekends Are a Cruel Juest - It reminded me, as many things do, of how important it is to have female role models. This thing happens when we talk about the way that we as fandom can disenfranchise women, the way we both expect more of female characters and also condemn them. The dou -
- kyuuketsukirui: Romance novel fanfic - And I think it's that while a lot of fanfic is romance, it's not all "romance novel" romance, and part of that is because it's very hard to write romance novel romance and be IC, since the characters we're writing about are not romance novel heroines and -