: Friday, January 15, 2010
- folkloric_feel: wake up the members of my nation, it's your time to be. - So I've been thinking lately - just what is tweendom, in terms of how we define it here in our little corner of el jay?[...]it's television and movies and other media marketed to tweens[...]Just what is the fandom space we call tweendom, the overall mindset and community that adds up to something more than just the sum of the popular tween fandoms right now, and what makes it unique? -
- kitsuchi: Why I am not hanging out with 'organised fandom' - I feel like it must be referring directly to me, being a New Zealander in her early twenties who does not participate in 'organised fandom' and who has never particularly felt the need to. And who is kind of confused as to why younger people's fannishness occuring online would be a worry. -
- executrix: Meta: Don't Look Now - I've seen m/m writing by women described as harmful for "othering" or "exoticizing" gay men, but I think, on the contrary, it reflects a wish to understand how people who are dissimilar to the writer or reader think and feel and behave. -
- giandujakiss: I'm not into science fiction, I know nothing about publishing, and I've never read Realms of Fantasy - So I don't really have a lot of faith in the knee-jerk response of "but there were no women to choose from!" Because it implies that reaching out to women authors is necessary to get women interested, or something, instead of necessary to counterbalance the existing outreach that is directed only to men, except that it's called networking, not male outreach. -
- solitary_summer: I'm not all that comfortable posting thi - I have this sort of theory why TW fandom blew up so spectacularly after CoE, and it has a lot to do with this slightly uneasy alliance between gay people and the straight part of slash fandom, -
- paradox_dragon: The whole "is (some) slash homophobic" debate is here again - So, I think that what a lot of women who write slash hear when they are asked to more honestly portray men who have sex with men is "stop writing these girly men and write about real men." In other words, men who conform to conventional gender roles and stereotypes. In other-other words, to bring their writing into line with mainstream narratives about masculinity and gender, to which they are very likely ideologically and viscerally opposed. -