: Saturday, October 16, 2010
- thingswithwings: Festivids: Still Awesome - My question for you, the internet: what are your favourite fannish challenges, in terms of how well they're modded? What specifically says "good modding" to you? What's your Platonic ideal of good modding? -
- sarasvati: The chart of doom. - I wonder, then, if I pass muster as a "strong female character." Let's see. -
- acrimonyastraea: Meta about That Chart - I think we need to be able to talk about the limitations in the media for fictional women. We need to be able to talk about how even the most interesting and exciting female characters can still be presented in a context that limits them and puts them in boxes that are safe and unchallenging to the status quo. And we need to be able to do this without implying/stating/suggesting that this means we shouldn't like them or that there is nothing good about them. -
- rivkat: Long review: I'm here because of Kirk and Spock - The relationship between lolcats and Tea Parties is more complex than lolcats being a mere epiphenomenon of the really significant uses of online tools. Shirky identifies a “spectrum” of forms of creation that range from creating personal value to creating civic value, but his conception seems static: each person’s activity emits light at a certain frequency only. -
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egregiouslypink: breaking news: apparently, women cannot win. - But insulting other women (especially as this chart does, based on the 'kind of woman they are' is not feminist. It just isn't, y'all.) wholesale and simply based on being a woman is not okay. When anyone feels the best way to be a feminist is to drag women through the mud rather than empower, I just... have to go bang my face against a wall. Forever. -- tielan: How can we write when our tropes are burning?OVERTHINKINGIT: If your female character fits any trope at all, she's not a "strong female character."
FANDOM: Let's take her out the back and beat the shit out of her! - dagas_isa: How to Be a Nuanced Male Character* - In a sea of white male characters, there needs to be something about each particular one that makes them complex and unique individuals worthy of an entire narrative. After all, if there's one thing we've learned from studying female characters, it's that the merest whiff of a stereotype or archetype on them can condemn a character to the pile of uninteresting paper dolls. -
- araine: I don't have a good "FANDOM JUSTICE SMASH" icon - I think the thing that annoys me the most, is that lovely and neat little line at the top. That rigid line that says "this way to a strong female character, and if you turn, if you make a detour you've messed up". That intimidating and arbitrary little line. -
- anivad: screw my vow of no-fandom-wank for now - I understood the chart to be a criticism of the way female characters were written in male-dominated industries, which does have much room for improvement, and I thought this was a generally accepted fact: one which I think the chart was just trying to illustrate. -
- elapses: apparently i have a lot of feelings - What is fulfilling for me is completely different from what is fulfilling for those people!!! I guess I didn't pay enough attention to after school specials as a kid!! But I am trying, and objectively I get to the point where I can say that if tumblr is really better for some people, maybe they should stay there. -
- flourish: META: Fans in the Media & Kathy Selden of Singin' in the Rain - Kathy gets to be a grown-up. Kathy, even though she is a fan, is mature and able to understand and think through her own emotions. And damn, does that ever go against the stereotypes of fannishness that still exist in our culture. -