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Sunday, January 31, 2010

copracat: The female characters are written by the - The female characters are written by the same people who write the male characters. Do the writers' limitations and prejudices cease to exist they write male characters? Or do they just not matter? -
(tags: question gender tptb fandom)

austrianschool: Appro Aggro and the Economics of Fandom Exchange - The Americanisation of this debate, if one can call it a debate, which I beg leave to doubt, is that Americans are peculiarly incapable, for perfectly understandable reasons of their peculiar history, of not casting such debates in the mould of Discussions About Race.[5] Gay rights, women's rights, it matters not: they must cut them to the pattern of the long and honourable struggle for civil rights in the face of racial segregation and racialism. Race, in the American sense of that remarkably 'loaded' and surprisingly slippery term -
(tags: culture gender race appropriation)