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Your Entitlement is Bad and Oppresses. My Entitlement is Good and Fights the Man!
As seen on clairvoyantwank!

SGA. Show of spin-off cheesy plots, space vampires, and occasionally being stranded in another galaxy but not in the really inconvenient way.

SGA Fandom. Utopia of wank, over-the-top meta, and when they can find time, buttsex.

The latest contribution to SGA's "blowing it entirely out of proportion" legacy starts on Friday, when hth, after wandering around LJ poking at links, sees something so infuriating she runs back to her LJ and posts a rant, entitled MY FUCKING FANDOM GIVES ME FUCKING FITS, part 34,849. Quite surprisingly, given the title, it contains some vitriol, to whit: hth came across a post in someone's personal journal where the person observed that an episode was likely to cause an upsurge in a pairing she really didn't like, and perhaps she'd just unsubscribe from the noticeboard for a little while until it passed. This made hth mad as all fucking hell, because the author was a McKay/Sheppard fan and McShep already owns the fandoms, blah blah blah entitlementcakes blahblah:

"And I don't exactly know where to begin, but I just -- I continue to be so fucking appalled at the outrageously self-centered, entitled, black-hole-of-need wing of McShep fandom. YOU MOTHERFUCKERS ALREADY OWN EVERYTHING. You are everywhere. Your pairing is everywhere. Are we even *on* the same sga_noticeboard? People are writing you literally a dozen or more stories PER DAY, all about your darling lovelies. YOU HAVE FUCKING WON, ALL RIGHT? Now get off our fucking backs!

I don't know if there will be a mad upsurge in Z/Q fic, but I'm pretty sure that if so, "mad upsurge"=maybe five or six stories MAX, TOTAL written by X/Q fans in response to Episode T. But your VIRGIN FUCKING EYEBALLS aren't capable of doing what we plebes do every day of our lives and PAGING DOWN your flist, past the links to the stories you don't want to read? You're too goddamn good for that? The mere knowledge that other people are out there writing their crazy Other Pairings is so upsetting for you that you have to go lie down with a cold compress until it's over?

Well, lucky fucking you -- because it will be over. If I want to unsub and come back when everybody's writing what I want and not writing what I don't want, I'll be gone for a factor of FOREVER.

And you know what? I do truly think that's what a lot of people want. I think there's a stratum of this fandom that would like people like me to just go away, because all we're doing is breathing the oxygen of the McKay/Sheppard people."

It goes on from there in about the same entertainingly frothing fashion.

hth is "shocked and hurt and angry" that there's a large part of the fandom that just doesn't care about her works (yes, she writes a non-majority pairing, and just by coincidence, one the original poster mentioned not liking!), and she blathers on about being the "Loyal Opposition" and how She's Not Going Anywhere and neither are her friends, the other minority pairing shippers, and they will fight them in the streets, they will fight them in the courts, they will fight them in Congress!

With such a stirring and rational battle-call, what else could happen, if not wank? (Everything in quotation marks is her direct phrasing, after all.)

And as we all know, these days, where there's SGA wank, there's

liviapenn: after getting the very first comment, she cheerfully flung herself into beating down opposing arguments to

hth's rant, because

hth's argument is right and just and why won't you see that it's right and just and it's right and just, dammit!

If you were here for either part of the racewank, you know this refrain. As an extra special bonus, where

livia does not go,

harriet_spy goeth for her. Hey, long time no see!

And speaking of the racewank, that's what this really is about, according to

hth herself: oppression of a minority.

"I have a long history of sympathy with the losers; it's my bone-deep, second-generation hippie-pinko-liberal instincts coming out. I have what theologians call a "preferential option" for people who are in the minority, who feel disenfranchised, who have less power to control their environment than other people do."

But wait. It gets better.

"Interestingly, I think some of the same unfortunate things are happening here that happened in the (much more significant & painful) race discussion: the issue becomes unjustly personalized. I'm white and so are all the characters I write about, are you calling me out personally for this? Well, not really, not the way I read that conversation. And yet clearly there was no chance a lot of people weren't going to hear exactly that, just like now a lot of people are hearing "and it's the personal fault of all of you separately and individually" here when people talk about feeling pushed out of the fandom."

Yes, rally round the flag, non-McSheppers. Your cause is so much more important than you ever would have guessed! Once again, SGA fandom is crusading for social justice!

Well, crusading for social justice in between calling the McShep fans names--which

merryish takes exception to, for some reason, although directing her anger against the originator of the phrase rather than going after someone who was just, uh, following the herd. And maybe most ironically, one of the supportive comments to

hth's side comes from a person who really did massively freak out about encountering pairings she detests. Rationallity tries to wander in, but gives up as a bad job and heads for other parts, hoping for a better response.

Which it gets.

chopchica makes a response post, and it mysteriously remains free of the wank contagion that so inexplicably infected the original rant. For some reason, none of the hard-hitting arguers mentioned above show up to explain the rightness of

hth's cause this time; maybe they didn't like the feng shui, though that hasn't seemed to preturb the post's other plentiful commenters. Meanwhile,

hth, realizes just how badly this is going for her and makes a non-apology post about credibility and impulsiveness and how making fandom rants is just never ever a good idea, and she feels really terrible about how all of this went.

But the glorious, glorious cherry-on-top of this sundae of spooge?

The post that set

hth off, the heinous author she valiantly refused to name the name of in public because

hth was afraid it would make that person look bad, was this post by

eleveninches (which contains spoilers for episodes unaired in the US).

Yes, that's right:

hth absolutely was losing her shit over a post from January. So much for "that's just a conspiracy theory!"

ETA: Over on Hth's second post, the comments are rolling in and the plot is continuing to thicken.

Sayith

raveninthewind:

"I get the impression that the reaction of the McSheppers who felt unfairly tarred with the Fandom Meanie label were rather like the white fen, also in SGA, who got so defensive that possibly, unintentionally, institutional racism had maybe affected their writing or the stories that they liked. You hit a sensitive button precisely because the fact that while they might not have ever explicitly supported the views of the poster that raised your ire originally, there was possibly some truth in the McShep contingent feeling entitled and using their fannish power unfairly. IOW, if you hadn't hit the nail on the head, it would have just been a rant by a fan of an unpopular pairing whose feelings got hurt."

So now we've learned something new (we already knew that shipping minorities are like race minorities): if someone makes an accusation against you and you get upset, that automatically means the accusation was true.

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	evanwaters 2007-04-24 03:11 am UTC (link)
	YOU MOTHERFUCKERS ALREADY OWN EVERYTHING. Everyone knows the McSheppers control the media. (Reply to this)(Thread)