Fandom and Male Privilege: [link]
I don't hang out in fanfic circles- are there a lot of guys as idiotic as this woman describes?
Simon: You are my beautiful sister. River: I threw up on your bed. Simon: Yep. Definitely my sister.
'War Stories'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Nov 11, 2005 8:05:39 am PST #3051 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Theodosia - Nov 11, 2005 8:05:49 am PST #3052 of 10006
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'm having a recently-picked locally-grown Baldwin apple for lunch, with an Iggy's French Roll as well. God, I'm going to miss the twice a week Farmer's Market in the Square.
Nutty - Nov 11, 2005 8:13:34 am PST #3053 of 10006
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I don't hang out in fanfic circles- are there a lot of guys as idiotic as this woman describes?
I haven't run across them in fanfic (I'm only halfway into that loop anyway), but I've met some of that ilk at cons.
Sometimes, it's just a quasi-aggrieved joke, like, "Wow, [in this panel on female fantasy authors] I'm the only guy in the room! Guess I'm representing the other half of the species!"
(I heard something of this ilk at Noreascon 4; of course, I was also sitting next to a linebacker-size male physicist [orzelc on LJ, for those interested], who was honestly interested in the topic and as annoyed at the comment as I was.)
shrift - Nov 11, 2005 8:20:17 am PST #3054 of 10006
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I don't hang out in fanfic circles- are there a lot of guys as idiotic as this woman describes?
Lucy's a friend of mine. And yeah, we've been butting heads with this kind of idiocy in comics fandom quite often.
In fact, one person I knew from comics fandom had a meltdown in the comments thread, and now I know why I hadn't really got on with him these past few years.
Sophia Brooks - Nov 11, 2005 8:21:02 am PST #3055 of 10006
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I heard back from boss (using cat excuse) and am off the hook! Now I get to worry about people talking about me all weekend long.... (yes I am self-centered, why do you ask?)
WRT to the male privilidge, I have not personally come across anything like that, but I am not in those circles. I did have a male friend who is very into video games tell me that a game with 20% sales to women would be considered a woman's game-- and then we are back to the thing where making something feminine makes it undesirable, while making it masculine can sometimes make it neutral.
Allyson - Nov 11, 2005 8:21:59 am PST #3056 of 10006
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Was it the guy who is OMG SO OPPRESSED because women hold all the power in America?
§ ita § - Nov 11, 2005 8:23:37 am PST #3057 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think there's a lot of "poisoning" of "our space" by the "other" when it comes to majority privilege -- it's just that the majority has most of the spaces, and when it gets pissy, it gets pissy big.
There are also, apparently, a lot of quotation marks.
Can we skip over today?
Nora Deirdre - Nov 11, 2005 8:25:30 am PST #3058 of 10006
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Now I get to worry about people talking about me all weekend long....
This is what they will say.
"Sophia was so smart to get out of this 2 day hell."
Jessica - Nov 11, 2005 8:27:28 am PST #3059 of 10006
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Can we skip over today?
Gods, yes.
Let's go straight to tomorrow, which is not only THE WEEKEND but also MY BIRTHDAY. It will be a much better day.
tommyrot - Nov 11, 2005 8:28:06 am PST #3060 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Happy Birthday-eve, Jessica!