My bucket of despair overfloweth in any case. Why add to it?

I'm really looking forward to this show. Impatient now.

There was this interesting article posted to Whedonesque about fandom:

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On female Farscape fans:

"They joined the campaign at one stage or another because they were emotionally invested in the show. Rather than sit around and watch it disappear — and lacking the option of physical violence — they decided to put their energy and talent to use doing what it took to change the minds that needed changing. The whole thing has been amazingly strategic, particularly in the efforts to grow the viewership and target advertisers."

To that end, the uniquely imaginative 'Scapers created and distributed a wide range of promotional materials, from calendars and cookbooks to the more traditional buttons, postcards and posters.

One particularly clever ploy, "Brascape," had women fans demonstrating their gender-specific "support" by mailing their bras in to Sci Fi.

"Women are taught from a very early age a different way of problem-solving than men," suggests Nicola Wood, another key Canadian 'Scaper. "Female methods of problem-solving involve co-operation, communication and non-hierarchical thinking. Woman are taught to co-operate with each other, rather than compete."

Female fans as reduced to using our bras to get a show back on the air?

Oh dear. That's discouraging.

ETA: I was very active in the 'Scaper campaign and did not participate in the bra part. Not that it was a bad thing, just not my thing.

Woman are taught to co-operate with each other, rather than compete

Okay, blargh.

Also, no one gets my bra. Know how much trauma and cost was involved in obtaining this puppy? Not Farscape, not Firefly, nope.

Master, is there a krav defense against a bra-snatcher?

What was interesting to me is that in my limited experience, it is women who tend to organize and run fan campaigns, though the common stereotype is the pimply-faced, overweight, socially inept boy as scifi/fantasy fan.

and lacking the option of physical violence

Which male fans find so useful in preventing their shows from being cancelled.

Master, is there a krav defense against a bra-snatcher?

Yeah. It primarly involves keeping your shirt on.

Female fans as reduced to using our bras to get a show back on the air?

I think we joked around about some sort of breast oriented campaign for Firefly. Kiba or someone else rather breastacular was going to make shirts. I remember we bandied about something like, "Don't let Firefly go tits up."