I'm remembering now a whole lot of tangles around fans of color relating that they had been accused of internalized racism, at times by white fans, during the Racefail 09 debates
Yeah, that happens with disability too and it is very annoying.
For sure, people will tend to read "what you did" as "what you are" without much provocation anyway, but that's no reason not to try to raise the level of debate regardless.
I think a lot of the extremely hyperbolic and nasty commentary about "Mary Sues" and knee-jerk dislike of original female characters in fandom is related to misogyny.
Definitely! But again, I think it's more useful to focus on the stifling effect of these comments on female writers.
This new love has made me realize that my dislike of a lot of the female characters in mainstream pop culture was not just misogyny, but dislike of a specific type of character's narrative function, if that makes sense.
*nods* even though I am usually drawn to female characters there are certain types of female characters I just cannot connect with (including the heroines of many paranormal romances, apparently we have very different tastes :))
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Yeah, that happens with disability too and it is very annoying.
For sure, people will tend to read "what you did" as "what you are" without much provocation anyway, but that's no reason not to try to raise the level of debate regardless.
I think a lot of the extremely hyperbolic and nasty commentary about "Mary Sues" and knee-jerk dislike of original female characters in fandom is related to misogyny.
Definitely! But again, I think it's more useful to focus on the stifling effect of these comments on female writers.
This new love has made me realize that my dislike of a lot of the female characters in mainstream pop culture was not just misogyny, but dislike of a specific type of character's narrative function, if that makes sense.
*nods* even though I am usually drawn to female characters there are certain types of female characters I just cannot connect with (including the heroines of many paranormal romances, apparently we have very different tastes :))