Got cranky yesterday with fans celebrating having bullied some jerk off Tumblr for posting some anti-Moffat bullshit or other. There's so much tedious Moffat is Satan / no he isn't / yes he is bickering on Tumblr that I avoid Who and Sherlock fandom altogether. I've turned into one of those weary old gods that bobs around in the ocean being annoyed ( Read more... )

... brought to you by premenstrual syndrome and Brintellix, an anti-depressant with side effects including irritability.

So I'm sitting here innocently reading Tumblr, and someone quotes one of the stars of the show How To Get Away With Murder, Conrad Ricamora, who plays half of a gay couple:

"The strangest thing I've noticed is that there are a ( Read more... )

Having dumped all the old stuff from kateorman into a posting here, I'm setting up this posting as a catch-all for anything more I happen to come across. Adding stuff at the top. Cites at the end.

"Fangirl" is not an insult. Tumblr posting from ca. 2014. How times have changed. My proud use of the term back in the day was unpopular to say the least.

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(From my previous lj, kateorman, cut-and-pasted here for my convenience. The original context was a 2008 discussion of whether fandom is gendered and whether men and women communicate differently. Well, I say "discussion"...)

Links

Fan-What? "In theory, Fanboy and Fangirl are simply gendered terms to differentiate a male fan and a female fan. In practical ( Read more... )

I'm drinking a Cuba Libre made with Pepsi Max and making a list of books to read as research for when I get stuck into redrafting Strange Flesh, so I thought I'd share some links with you while I'm at it ( Read more... )

Why Aren't Women Advancing At Work? Ask a Transgender Person. Having experienced the workplace from both perspectives, they hold the key to its biases.

Announcement: Readers who feel threatened by equality no longer welcome: "The problem here is that these squealing man-children, so desperate to keep women out of their precious games, want it both ( Read more... )

Engaging in displacement activity while struggling with chapter 20, I unwisely did my first Google ego scan in years. I came across someone rudely remarking that I have "a record of behaving very badly in fannish spaces". (Please don't Google for the phrase - they're entitled to their opinion ( Read more... )

I shall pay for this later. But for now:

ETA 4. I forgot to mention! I understood the first line of a Kpop song just by listening to it! Admittedly all it said was 제발 하지마라 "For goodness' sake, don't do it!" but nonetheless I am proud. :D

1. I picked that the composer for Ouran High School Host Club also did some of the music for Death Note: ( Read more... )

Back in 2008 I conducted a poll on my old journal, kateorman, in which (amongst other questions) I asked respondents to briefly define the terms "fangirl" and "fanboy". I referred to the poll's results in my essay in "Chicks Dig Time Lords". I screened the answers so that people could answer privately. Now, having removed all usernames to make the answers ( Read more... )

Hmm. I was wondering if it was too much to call female-on-female social aggression - aka bullying - "a profoundly anti-woman, anti-feminist act." I was thinking of the paradox of trashing, in which feminists bully feminists; and also of the way girls and women are taught to choke down their anger, meaning it spurts out as passive aggression. Still ( Read more... )