: Saturday, July 11, 2009
- sistermagpie: On the appeal of bad boys and girls - There are probably more shows on now than ever before with explicitly "bad" characters. One would think these shows required an audience who liked characters who didnâ™t share their morality, but they seem to also attract a large number of people who think the characters do share their morality until they do something really bad and the illusion is broken -
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prozacpark: Thoughts on fiction and gender: So, what about the men? - Every time there's a good discussion of the treatment of female characters in fiction or a mention of female deaths/refrigerations, there's always the inevitable derailment of the discussion with the very brilliant question of, "But what about the men? Do they don't die/get mistreated/etc, too?" So, I've been thinking: Indeed, what about the men? Are there problems with the way they're portrayed? -- dachelle: Me + my fandom = OTP - It strikes me that in discussions of "fandom" as an entity, it's kind of assumed that people are multi-fannish, flitting around from fandom to fandom, constantly distracted by the new and shiny, and that that's just how fans are. To me, this is odd, because I am staunchly monofannish. -