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meganbmoore) wrote2008-02-21 08:38 pm
meganbmoore) wrote2008-02-21 08:38 pm
the break from fandom, it is not going so well...
Ok, seriously, how can women NOT be interested in women in fiction, or view them as irrelevant, or only there to complement the guys? I mean, seriously, HOW???
I don't mean liking every female character ever, or always being more interested in the female, I just mean approaching fiction with the idea that the female is less important than the male.
It seems to me that it should be the reverse...but then again, I shouldn't be surprised, as so much of fandom revolves around the ideathat it's good or more interesting to take the role of the female and give it to a male instead(yes, if you slash a canonically, heterosexually paired character with another male, you ARE robbing the female of part of her role in the story and giving it to a male. Period.)
No, I do not dislike you or not respect you or automatically think less of you if you aren't interested in female characters or slash canonically paired males(the f-list would be much smaller if I did.) But I also can't remotely with your viewpoint when you're coming at something with either one.
(ok, I must ask: is there something in the world's water supply the last few weeks? I keep seeing more and more rants...not that I'm one to talk.)
ETA: No, not directed at anyone specifically (I don't post rants directed to specific people if I know them) but on comments in various rants I've read the last week or so.
I don't mean liking every female character ever, or always being more interested in the female, I just mean approaching fiction with the idea that the female is less important than the male.
It seems to me that it should be the reverse...but then again, I shouldn't be surprised, as so much of fandom revolves around the ideathat it's good or more interesting to take the role of the female and give it to a male instead(yes, if you slash a canonically, heterosexually paired character with another male, you ARE robbing the female of part of her role in the story and giving it to a male. Period.)
No, I do not dislike you or not respect you or automatically think less of you if you aren't interested in female characters or slash canonically paired males(the f-list would be much smaller if I did.) But I also can't remotely with your viewpoint when you're coming at something with either one.
(ok, I must ask: is there something in the world's water supply the last few weeks? I keep seeing more and more rants...not that I'm one to talk.)
ETA: No, not directed at anyone specifically (I don't post rants directed to specific people if I know them) but on comments in various rants I've read the last week or so.
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I hate it when the female character is treated like an expandable entity, be it in fandom (where, it would seem, it is everyone's fantasy to kill off the main girl and have her replaced by an OC/Sue/random male character) or in the original work itself (oh, how many times have I rolled my eyes at an author's laughable disregard for their own female character... even more laughable as said authors often happen to be female themselves).
Let it be said that I'm not more partial to female characters than I am to male characters. However, there seems to be a trend that consists in idolizing everything that sports a penis and deeming every heroine a waste of space and it is sorta grating.
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Exactly. There's this idea that females only exist to take up space, or be a token love interest. It's why the fics that have the guy running off always having adventures at the end while the female sits at home waiting really grate. First of all, most of the females who have that fic written about them wouldn't put up with that, and, in fact, spent the entire work going on adventures with them, but there's also an underlying "well, fine, she got the guy...BUT I DON'T CARE SO I'LL SAY SHE DID BUT STILL WRITE HIM WITHOUT HER BECAUSE SHE DOESN'T MATTER ANYWAY!!!"