Over a week after this has all started, people are still posting and posting and posting, and since my original links post doesn't include any of the new stuff, here I go again with a bunch more links. Some of these posts I strongly agree with, some I strongly disagree with. But I think they're all worth a read ( Read more... )

Time for a roundup of links! These are all posts dealing with the same topic I posted about yesterday - the disturbing comments left both in mamadeb's journal and on Fandom Wank, and fandom's reactions to the realities of what both Yuletide and other Secret Santa ficathons truly stand for ( Read more... )

I wasn’t going to post publicly about this, because the last time I did (years ago), I was dogpiled horribly and accused of being oversensitive, overreacting, etc. Of course, I was new to fandom (very, very new) and didn’t know how to phrase things without sounding accidentally wanky, and when people who were much more articulate and experienced ( Read more... )