I know absolutely nothing about this whole affair besides the basic, rough outline - you know me and metafandom and the OMGLIVEJOURNALPOWER!!!!--we don't get along. But I remember thinking not, "OMG THIS GOES AGAINST MY FEMINIST WAYS" or whatever, but just, "wow, way to be pretentious." One of the few things I read and agreed with on metafandom basically read, "It's not the idea I mind, it's the fact that these ten [or however many people] are presuming to speak for all of the people in fandom."
That and, I'm sorry, but "legalizing fanfiction" and all the rest makes me laugh out loud. It's just exactly like the strikeout idiocy -- LOOK AT HOW SPECIAL WE ARE. WATCH US PROVE OUR SPECIAL. SPECIAL!!!!
And I do wish those people didn't claim to represent fandom as a whole. Especially as I am a part of fandom.
I grew up in Vermont, which I think takes pride in being the most Batshit Liberal state in the USA. It's like our state motto. I count as pretty liberal myself when I take polls to that effect, even! But growing up in Vermont? There is bad liberal, too. Believe me. I have stories. Just like not all conservatives are extremist assholes, well, lots of liberals ARE. And that is, I suspect, why I hate LJ fandom. Because they are so OMG IMPORTANT and OMG RIGHTS and OMG WE FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS, and I grew up around shit like that, and shit is exactly what it is. There's an eventual line where "fighting for rights" becomes "being an asshole," and LJ fandom? Long, long over that line.
It's not "Oh, men can join, too" that I'm worried about -- it's "OH WE WOMEN OF FANDOM ARE SO SPECIAL AND DESERVE RIGHTS LOOK AT OUR SPECIAL." Whether or not men are involved have absolutely nothing to do with it.
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That and, I'm sorry, but "legalizing fanfiction" and all the rest makes me laugh out loud. It's just exactly like the strikeout idiocy -- LOOK AT HOW SPECIAL WE ARE. WATCH US PROVE OUR SPECIAL. SPECIAL!!!!
And I do wish those people didn't claim to represent fandom as a whole. Especially as I am a part of fandom.
I grew up in Vermont, which I think takes pride in being the most Batshit Liberal state in the USA. It's like our state motto. I count as pretty liberal myself when I take polls to that effect, even! But growing up in Vermont? There is bad liberal, too. Believe me. I have stories. Just like not all conservatives are extremist assholes, well, lots of liberals ARE. And that is, I suspect, why I hate LJ fandom. Because they are so OMG IMPORTANT and OMG RIGHTS and OMG WE FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS, and I grew up around shit like that, and shit is exactly what it is. There's an eventual line where "fighting for rights" becomes "being an asshole," and LJ fandom? Long, long over that line.
It's not "Oh, men can join, too" that I'm worried about -- it's "OH WE WOMEN OF FANDOM ARE SO SPECIAL AND DESERVE RIGHTS LOOK AT OUR SPECIAL." Whether or not men are involved have absolutely nothing to do with it.