You're welcome. :) Yeah, since we can always go AU, I'm not like tearing out my shipper girl hair or anything.
Fanfic fandom is predominantly female across the board but you're right, I have noticed that there seem to be more men in Firefly fandom (although I think they're still a minority). That probably has more to do with genre - Westerns being a "masculine" genre, etc.
A good point. But I see something else as well: women are socialized to value relationships. Also, the archetype of the (professional) "artist" in our culture is independent, unique. This real "artist" creates in a vacuum without being in conversation with the rest of the culture. Note, that this is a basic definition.
Men, in our culture, are socialized to be "independent" in a way that women are not and so they fit into this archetype better (of course, is it an accident that this concept of the artist is fashioned around an ideal masculinity?).
It makes sense then that women would enjoy creating art and or writing in community and in dialogue with one another. Which is one of the main joys of fandom, IMO.
I could totally go off about this some more but I have to study some math. Grrrrr.
Fanfic fandom is predominantly female across the board but you're right, I have noticed that there seem to be more men in Firefly fandom (although I think they're still a minority). That probably has more to do with genre - Westerns being a "masculine" genre, etc.
factual=male dominated, artistic=female dominated ..
A good point. But I see something else as well: women are socialized to value relationships. Also, the archetype of the (professional) "artist" in our culture is independent, unique. This real "artist" creates in a vacuum without being in conversation with the rest of the culture. Note, that this is a basic definition.
Men, in our culture, are socialized to be "independent" in a way that women are not and so they fit into this archetype better (of course, is it an accident that this concept of the artist is fashioned around an ideal masculinity?).
It makes sense then that women would enjoy creating art and or writing in community and in dialogue with one another. Which is one of the main joys of fandom, IMO.
I could totally go off about this some more but I have to study some math. Grrrrr.
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