oh, good luck. she's apparently deleting all responses to her that aren't "YAY YOU GO GIRL".
As for me, well let's start with the fact that my back is GOING to go up anytime some 20 yr old babyfangirl starts to tell me that she's studying fandom for YEARS (years! I tell you! years!). I've been active in fandom and writing fanfic for 10 years. That's MY credibility. I don't write slash and rarely read it - but as a het writer, I'm going to take umbrage at the notion that all fanfiction simply reinforces the patriarchy. I don't like weepy clingy needy women in RL or in my fic. (Which would explain my adoration of Elizabeth Swann and Kara Thrace) I don't write 'em and I don't read 'em. The greater challenge is writing a relationship between two strong independent people, but it's what attracts me to the characters and drives me to try to write.
From what I could read (and my eyes kept glazing over so I may not have read all or read her correctly), there is no satisfying this girl. She doesn't like het because it reinforces the patriarchy. She doesn't like slash, because it reinforces the patriarchy. She doesn't like sex, apparently, because sex requires one to penetrate and one to be penetrated. Gee, last time I looked, that's the way we were designed (het or slash). So are we all - in RL and in fic - supposed to just masturbate?
And while I've said I don't read that much slash, if the "they all turn hetro at the end" was so prevalent as she claims, I sure would have run across it once or twice. Instead, I've never seen it; nor have my friends who read and write copious slash.
In the end, she started her "research" with her conclusions already drawn. And amazingly (WOW!), she found only stories that back up her conclusions! What A Coincidence! (/snark)
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As for me, well let's start with the fact that my back is GOING to go up anytime some 20 yr old babyfangirl starts to tell me that she's studying fandom for YEARS (years! I tell you! years!). I've been active in fandom and writing fanfic for 10 years. That's MY credibility. I don't write slash and rarely read it - but as a het writer, I'm going to take umbrage at the notion that all fanfiction simply reinforces the patriarchy. I don't like weepy clingy needy women in RL or in my fic. (Which would explain my adoration of Elizabeth Swann and Kara Thrace) I don't write 'em and I don't read 'em. The greater challenge is writing a relationship between two strong independent people, but it's what attracts me to the characters and drives me to try to write.
From what I could read (and my eyes kept glazing over so I may not have read all or read her correctly), there is no satisfying this girl. She doesn't like het because it reinforces the patriarchy. She doesn't like slash, because it reinforces the patriarchy. She doesn't like sex, apparently, because sex requires one to penetrate and one to be penetrated. Gee, last time I looked, that's the way we were designed (het or slash). So are we all - in RL and in fic - supposed to just masturbate?
And while I've said I don't read that much slash, if the "they all turn hetro at the end" was so prevalent as she claims, I sure would have run across it once or twice. Instead, I've never seen it; nor have my friends who read and write copious slash.
In the end, she started her "research" with her conclusions already drawn. And amazingly (WOW!), she found only stories that back up her conclusions! What A Coincidence! (/snark)