inalasahl (inalasahl) wrote in metafandom,
@ 2009-08-22 18:52:00

Saturday, August 22, 2009

esorlehcar: laurashapiro has an interesting post on - A friend recently commented that she sometimes misses the days when fandom seemed like this shiny, egalitarian place where issues surrounding race (and gender, to a lesser extent) just didn't exist and she didn't realize it was an illusion courtesy of her own privilege, and it struck me how telling a comment that was: For a whole lot of people, the anger that their fandoms are being "polluted" or "ruined" by this kind of discussion stems from a deep-seated conviction that these problems didn't exist in fandom before some troublemakers started talking about them, -
(tags: race fandom privilege)

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