: Saturday, June 6, 2009
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elke_tanzer: More thinky thoughts about cons, My Spaces and Not So Much My Spaces - Overnight I found myself thinking about how different people (I won't even try to generalize into groups or realms of professions or realms of fandoms) define the word "panel", and what structures (as opposed to topics) of panels I enjoy. -- sqbr: Old school fandom: Can we fix it? - But I'm sick of so many conversations being framed as "Why my form of fandom is Better and the True Form Of Fandom", so that even when it's true (in at least one respect) it's hard to engage with an open mind -
- coffeeandink: Unpopular opinions - Look, I'm sorry, science fiction fandom is not a special snowflake and media fandom is not the greatest place ever for racial discourse. -
- gabrielleabelle: Newsflash: Women are interesting - The heart of the Bechdel test is an unfortunate truth: our media has the assumption that men are not interested in women except as they relate to men. It is thought that a conversation between two women that isn't about a man could not possibly interest men. -
- dysprositos: Fannish expectations - what expectations do we (Western media fandom as found on LJ and other journaling services, and united with such communities as Metafandom, Fandom_Wank, Fandom_Secrets, and so on) have of each other that are not related to fandom but that are not expectations we would have for humanity at large? -
- arabia764: For the love of fandom - I don’t tell everyone but a lot of people do know. The husband knows what I write, my boys know how much I like J&J, my parents know I went to the conventions. -