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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

the_sun_is_up
2013-02-25 07:26 pm UTC (link)

IT IS JUST SO CRAZY HOW POTENTIALLY CANON SLASH RELATIONSHIPS INVITE RIDICULOUS AMOUNTS OF MISOGYNY INTO THEIR WANKING ARSENAL

Ah, but that's the sticking point: they're not potentially canon. In my experience, shows with actual canonical m/m couples tend to have less of the slash-related misogyny, I guess because the fangirls no longer view the female characters as a threat? Whereas in canons like SPN, LOTR, Harry Potter, Naruto, Gundam Wing, etc, it's clear that the preferred slash pairings will be forever teased at but will never be canon, and that fact tends to drive the fangirls a little batty. And actually, I've seen the reverse happen — fandoms that are heavy on the femslash tend to also bash the male characters a lot, again because the canon in question usually has tons of lesbian subtext but no actual text.

I have no idea how to cure this

You can't. Because (in my experience) fandoms like this tend to attract women who are already misogynistic, and they're naturally drawn to a community that will cater to those beliefs.

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

LOL Kannagi. LOL moe fanboys.

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