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at least no one's knotting, fandom: sherlock holmes, fandom: teen wolf, goddammit you guys be funnier!, misplaced anger, oh hurrah the daily dot, please mommy make it stop, reading comprehension whut?, too cool for school, tumblr is witchcraft, we fail at not being misogynists

ALL Air-Date Announcements Pertain to Sherlock (and If They Don't, You'd Better Apologize)
Wank and write up taken from the little mousey over at wank_report.

Tumblr user and Teen Wolf fan Heyysourwolf posts the air date for TW's third season. Unsurprisingly, she tags the post #s3 spoilers and--follow me closely, here--#teen wolf.

Sherlock fen, for no discernable reason whatever, assume that the post is regarding the air date for S3 of their show. Because no other show on TV anywhere is entering its third season, apparently. Or something.

Once they figure out that the post was not, in fact, about the return of the BBC series, Sherlock fen lose their shit.

Completely.

Sherlock fandom wants an apology RIGHT NOW, Heyysourwolf. A FORMAL apology. And we're going to berate you with misogynistic slurs and rant about how this is all your fault and how egregious it is that you should make yourself out to be the injured party and, above all, how immature you are, until we get it.

After all: "SOME OF US ARE EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLE DO YOU EVEN FUCKING THINK BEFORE YOU POST? GOD I HOPE YOU GET PUNCHED IN THE TITS."*

* Probability that that particular entry is just somebody awesome trolling the shit out of the other anons with sarcasm: moderately high

EDIT: Aja has written an article about the wank for The Daily Dot.

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Re: My tl;dr

uldihaa
2013-02-23 04:14 am UTC (link)

I remember a specific example where a female anime character supposedly had a tryst or something in her past, and male fans erupted into frothing incoherent rage, as she was no longer an accessible virgin in their minds.

Ah, I think I know the exact series you're talking about. Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens, right? I have my suspicions as to why these male fans react this way*.

As to the women that do this to MxM pairings, I find it rather interesting that they almost always define the relationship in stereotypical male/female terms and concepts. The fact that they fiercely debate who is a "top" and who is a "bottom" shows they have no idea what real gay relationships are like. So in a way, it's still them projecting themselves into it, but as a gay man rather than a woman. Or not, I'm just tossing that out there.

*I suspect that most of those that had a complete meltdown, especially the first ones, are themselves either virgins or are extremely inexperienced. They prefer a virgin because then there's no pressure to perform well; they aren't "competing" against a past lover.

Or put another way, most virgins prefer other virgins over experienced lovers.

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	Re: My tl;dr eevee 2013-02-23 11:15 am UTC (link)
	Crazy Shrine Maidens I actually can't remember if that was the actual title or a joke, but either way, I laughed out disproportionately loud. (That whole brouhaha also inspired me to never, ever make any of my female MCs a virgin, just in case I ever get the chance to piss off some righteous otaku-tachi) (Reply to this)(Parent)

My tl;dr continues

mad_teacup
2013-02-23 05:36 pm UTC (link)

I just looked up Kannagi, and yeah, that was it! I remember what the character looked like. And actually, that wank made me think of this BBC story about a female Japanese pop star. She spent a night with her boyfriend and was caught doing it, so she shaved all her hair off in penance for this. The article mentioned this same phenomenon:

They [the girls in the band] portray an image of cuteness known as "kawaii", and have become a huge phenomenon both in Japan and increasingly in other Asian countries, correspondents say.

The condition for being part of such a successful act is that the girls must not date boys, so as not to shatter their fans' illusions.

AKB48's management office said Minegishi had been demoted to a trainee team as punishment "for causing a nuisance to the fans".

[bolded stuff mine]

Obviously this is terrible and disgusting, even that Minegishi felt like she had to do this...and she's not even a fictional character, she's a real person. It's like, wow... I actually wrote about this in my LJ and I still feel like that sums up how I feel about this:

"I couldn't even watch this video [linked in the BBC article—Minegishi crying and apologizing to fans]. Reading this article made me want to cry. WTF? [insert above quote] ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?! LOL OKAY JAPAN, YOU JUST KEEP FORCING GIRLS INTO THE POSITION OF HUMAN BODY PILLOWS. BECAUSE I MEAN FANS WOULD KILL THEMSELVES IF THEY COULDN'T ~LEGIT-LY~ IMAGINE THEMSELVES FUCKING THESE GIRLS. THEY WOULDN'T BE ACCESSIBLE ANYMORE IF THEY WERE, YOU KNOW, REAL GIRLS. EWWW REAL GIRLS YOU'RE HARSHING MY SQUEE! ...Please die in a fire."

Everyone please stop objectifyiiiing~

I also got the sense with the Kannagi thing, that it wasn't only the threat of experience (either from the character/from her potential past lover) but the very real sense she was now dirtied... I think that was all over their posts too. Like, no! This isn't true! X-chan is PURE!! SHE ISN'T A DIRTY DIRTY WHORE. But if she is I will kick her to the curb! I'm crying into my body pillow right nao!!

Ughhh.

That's so true about the MxM pairings. It really drives me crazy how rampant that is. So maybe there's a kind of "exchange" going on. Projection into the MxM fantasy, but then this sort of...again weird...collective cropping up around it. Dang, why is everybody that hasn't been "officially" initiated into the gang-like hivemind such a threat? ARE YOU INSECURE, SHERLOCK FANS. INSECURE THAT YOUR SHOW ISN'T #1?!

I am so drugged on cold medicine. I apologize for rambling!

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	Re: My tl;dr continues sparkysrevenge 2013-02-24 07:10 pm UTC (link)
	That whole bit with Minegishi makes me all kinds of angry. I don't care if you think they're hot. They're real people and should be allowed to get real boyfriends or girlfriends, c'mon! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: My tl;dr continues adevyish 2013-02-25 10:48 am UTC (link)
	I saw someone I know post about Minegishi with the "don't stop hating on AKB48/the fandom don't you see she's doing this because she loves the fans" and I wanted to throw things. Ugh :( (Reply to this)(Parent)

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