The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Not saying it's not true on a much larger scale than my life, but gut feeling is that socialization doesn't work as well as the scientists who make this kind of statement would like us to think.
Jess, I mostly agree. Keeping up with the literature is an interesting theoretical exercise, but it often doesn't play out in real life experience. I also think that gender roles have been changing very rapidly in the last decade, even more so than before. It's difficult to track any one sociological effect, I think.
and that fandoms are primarily female for the shows in questions.
My question is, "why?"
I mean, I look at the signups for the LOST party, and it's almost completely female. Why? There are certainly oodles of men watching the show.
Are Buffistas primarily female?
FTR, I do believe there are differences between men in women besides goolies and socialization.
Save Enterprise is mostly men, and stands a chance of becoming the most noted (by dint of the whole 3 mil thing) save-our-show campaign.
The boys are doing okay for themselves, I think.
They came to mind because I think of Trek as a masculine fandom. If there's some history of masculine fandoms failing to rally, that would interest me.
Or is the male lack-of-cooperation posited to make fandoms female? Is that how far back the causality goes?
I do believe there are differences between men in women besides goolies and socialization
I think most instances of men in women boils down to goolies, with socialisation if they're lucky.
However, to not harp on the typo -- what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?
As an aside, 3 mil in pledges is surely nice. I can pledge a llama and a case of Do Equiis, but really, doesn't mean I'll give it.
She didn't say "biology", she said "Goolies". There are sex-linked differences in other parts of the bodies than goolies.
There are sex-linked differences in other parts of the bodies than goolies.
Sorry -- I assumed that she was using my blanket usage of goolies detailed upthread.
My bad.
what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?
An autistic hermaphodite.
Or is the male lack-of-cooperation posited to make fandoms female? Is that how far back the causality goes?
That's what I was wondering about, when I mentioned I thought there are other differences between men and women than just their physical sex. Surely the internet isn't predominantly female, and I'm guessing that the earliest internet fandoms were probably mostly male. Does anyone know if that's true?
My experience is way skewed, because it is almost all Buffy & Joss related. I know those fandoms are heavily female where the internet is concerned. Buffy and internet fandom owe a lot to each other (in my opinion) though. Each sort of helped make a name for the other. I bothered to tune into Buffy, because the Bronze got buzz in local papers, a couple of times.
If I were really good at rhetoric, I would say "Ah,
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", where X is the rhetorical term for the part used to represent the whole.
Unfortunately, I forget that word.
