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Wankprophet (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} wankprophet) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} fandom_wank,@ 2005-10-12 22:44:00 |
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| Entry tags: | community: fanficrants, entitlement, isn't it awfully nice to have a penis, sexism |
It's a Man's World...or maybe it's just written that way....
Minor fanficrants wank that I'm posting thanks to the heel-dragging of senor_pinata
lord_gribeau is a male, and apparently loves it. Whether his fondness for his Y chromosome is due to the vertical bathroom use, the fabled One-Orgasm-at-a-Time, or just the abundant job opportunities as a Roman Catholic pederast, he doesn't make clear. But one thing is certain:
He's not happy sitting at the boy's table in the fanfic world.
Not that I can blame him – boys make creepy shapes with their mashed potatoes, which could put anyone off his dinner. But it's the women he's upset with:
And I'm annoyed at parts of the female fan fiction population, especially the quasi-academic, use-big-word female crowd. I'm annoyed at females who put down men in discussions regarding fan fiction. I'm annoyed at the portrayal of men in fan fiction.
If you're going to discuss men, INVITE THEM TO THE TABLE. If you look through some of the conversations on the big meta and fic journals that discuss gender, slash, & reading habits of the fan fiction writing community, you frequently see a lot of women, females, girls. Rarely do you see any men. These women, you know who I mean, will talk and talk about men. And they'll subtlely bash my wonderful gender. They'll say that isn't it wonderful that women can identify with characters regardless of gender and men can't do that. Shove it female fans with your elitist feminine attitudes! Men can relate to female characters just as well as women can relate to male characters. Some men can. Some women can't. And your brother, husband, lover, gay male friend, father do not represent all males. Get a larger pool. Men can do romance. Straight men can watch two gay guys screwing on screen with out going all homophobic on people's asses. There are some wonderful anime shows with two guys in a relationship that have male audiences. Your female bashing of men as being uninterested in romance is hurtful to men because it reinforces negative stereotypes.
So stop your discriminating. Stop your talking about our gender without actually asking our opinions or getting us involved in those discussions. Stop putting down our gender in order to put yours up.
You'd think fan fiction writers and slash writers, would know better than to do this but it just isn't so. Learn and stop the playa hating male bashing that exists in too many fan fiction communities. We see you even if we're not saying it!
The reactions start out relatively mild, mostly along the "mmm, I see. Okay. I can buy that." lines. Then the people at the women's table glance over and see him acting out. Millyfan begins the countdown and people get a tad testy. Or ovaresty. Or something.
I was going to excerpt examples, but then I realized how long this would get. Click. Read. Learn. Are men the new black? Are gays the new men? Ask yourself what the real reason is for people thinking raptorscribe is a girl.
Oh, and no furry male bashing. My Intraweb lawyerz are standing by, dammit.
Oh hell, go ahead and bash males. Just don't bash the nasty furries. I almost mean it.
