You didn't - just that there is kind of an argument to be made that femslash is feminist, in that it puts female desire for women above male desire, though not one that I support (I've just spent the weekend debating feminism with a friend, so I have it on the brain even more than usual!)
they picked out someone from a highly controversional discussed corner of fandom and kind of made it look like that's the majority of fandom and that they're some kind of avantgarde (both in fandom and basically in culture) which just isn't true
I guess it makes for a more interesting article. To me, we're about as interesting as any other writing group, or interest-based hobby group - interesting enough, because I'm a sociologist, and so every group is interesting to me - but not enough to be worth all the attention we occasinally get. And if you're going to take the line of 'wow, look at these whacky women' it doesn't work as well if you use gen or het writers, because that's what most mainstream writers write.
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Date: 2010-06-20 05:25 pm (UTC)You didn't - just that there is kind of an argument to be made that femslash is feminist, in that it puts female desire for women above male desire, though not one that I support (I've just spent the weekend debating feminism with a friend, so I have it on the brain even more than usual!)
they picked out someone from a highly controversional discussed corner of fandom and kind of made it look like that's the majority of fandom and that they're some kind of avantgarde (both in fandom and basically in culture) which just isn't true
I guess it makes for a more interesting article. To me, we're about as interesting as any other writing group, or interest-based hobby group - interesting enough, because I'm a sociologist, and so every group is interesting to me - but not enough to be worth all the attention we occasinally get. And if you're going to take the line of 'wow, look at these whacky women' it doesn't work as well if you use gen or het writers, because that's what most mainstream writers write.