amireal (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} amireal) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} metafandom,@ 2010-01-28 19:34:00 |
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January 28, 2010
- The Acrimonious One - Part 1 There aren't enough interesting women to write about - These female characters are often presented in a way that women are expected to identify with, and they are often limited to the role of support of the male lead and they often embody sexist stereotypes. Some examples, so I'm not just generalizing: Rinoa (Final Fantasy 8); Elizabeth (Pirates of the Caribbean); Aeris (Final Fantasy 7); Kate (Lost). All of these characters have some good characteristics, but many women legitimately feel resentful and uncomfortable with the expectations of women that the characters perpetuate. That this resentment is expressed with misogyny against the characters as women is a troubling product of our misogynist culture, but I don't think the solution is to expect all women to embrace these characters as totally awesome. -
- phoebe_zeitgeist: Inquiring minds want to know. - My reaction to the current round of discussion about writers' responsibilities to those who are or might be harmed by unexamined privilege expressed in the writers' work has been, roughly: -
- calicokat: I've been trying to figure out if I have - I'm not trying to brag. Rather, I'm saying you can love female characters, write female characters, follow female characters and be passionate about female characters and still write, read, enjoy and adore slash. These things are not mutually exclusive. -
- meri_sefket: One Fan's Experience - I thought I'd start share my own history in fandom because maybe my own story can show the myriad ways in which I failed, recognized that fail, moved on, and expanded my fannish experience. -
- freifraufischer: Femslash and the Lesbian Experience. Or rather my lesbian experience. - The long and the short of it is that in my almost twenty years in fandom I have run across very few slash stories that were written by gay men, or had any relation to LGBT culture as I have experianced it for the last fifteen years. While I am willing to concede that the queer community is not one subculture, but several, there complete absence of any elements of gay male culture that I am familiar with leads me to believe that slash is almost excursively the domain of straight female authors. -
- tielan: on snowflakes and snowdrifts - You can make choices for perfectly good, utterly rational, and totally unique reasons, and still be part of a bigger problem. -