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[aphrodite_mine]

Five Fannish Lines in the Sand (i.e., things in fandom you are inflexible about.) (thanks to anonymous) (for fannish5

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- Glorified rape. Character rapes another character, and fandom is still expected by show (and fandom at large) to be swooned over, viable love interest, etc, etc. No. Fuck no. (See: Degrassi, True Blood, The Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl)

- Rape jokes. Casual remarks about rape, i.e. "I'm gonna rape that test!" (See: 30 Rock, everything)

- Consistent killing, hating, othering, and ignoring of female characters. (See: Supernatural, X-Men First Class, Torchwood, every "two guy cop/lawyer/buddy" show that has a woman sorta-sidekick-occasional love interest)

- There are exceptions to this rule, but if there is only one major female character, and she's white, and she's always in the background of the promotional images, maybe slightly in the shadow of her male counterpart(s)... I can't fucking do it. (That isn't to say this doesn't piss me off if there's one lesser female in a ratio and she's POC, I'm just really tired of white girls and men.)

- Purely fandom thing, but say there is an awesome show with lots of awesome women and maybe some awesome men too. There will be one m/m pairing that dominates. A couple popular m/f pairings, naturally. Lots of popular m/m pairings, but these vary. Femslash? GOOD FUCKING LUCK.

This is why I don't... DO fandom. Is it awesome to finally find that story you have wanted since the show came out? HELL YES. Is it worth it so sift through days and days of misogynistic bullshit, and rape and violence against women for a man's benefit, and racism, and ageism, and ism and ism and FUCK.

No. I draw the line.

Comments

[sisterjune.livejournal.com]

I dont really hang out in fandoms much anymore either, they are just always so disappointing. even a generally female positive show (like avatar the last airbender) can have a really awful fandom. so its just better to stay confined to within the parameters of my flist.

[imabianca.livejournal.com]

Flists are safe places. *clings*
(sorry, lazy and using an RP journal to posT=t)

[immortality.livejournal.com]

Purely fandom thing, but say there is an awesome show with lots of awesome women and maybe some awesome men too. There will be one m/m pairing that dominates. A couple popular m/f pairings, naturally. Lots of popular m/m pairings, but these vary. Femslash? GOOD FUCKING LUCK.

HOLY FUCK THIS.

Actually, holy fuck YES to everything, really. At least the fandoms I'm in now aren't so bad, but jfc.

[imabianca.livejournal.com]

My problem is that I don't want to ship femslash just because it's the only option, so while mostly or all women fandoms are AMAZING, I tend to get almost as frustrated with them as I do when femslash is hard to find.

[immortality.livejournal.com]

I imagined this all being said in Bianca's voice. El. Oh. El.

See, I tend to gravitate to fandoms that are mostly/all women simply because I just have zero interest in men. Idk, I just don't find them very interesting even on a fictional scale, so I like fandoms where femslash is the default.

[imabianca.livejournal.com]

[You wanna talk to Bianca, lol, okay?]

I understand that, whatever. But it's about choice. At least it is for me. I look at a show or movie and say fuck you, I'm not going to watch this like you want me to watch this, because, whatever. I can.

There's always exceptions, of course. That's what makes them rules.

[ginevra-alessa.livejournal.com]

I love your icon.