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[glockgal]

THE WACKY COUSIN
cidercupcakes discusses an issue: 'it is not the duty of marginalized people to educate privileged people, or to fit some gold standard of "niceness" in calling them out on their privilege'Actually, while I fully 100% support what Cider is referring to (ie the erasure of a character's canon Jewishness by replacing it with Catholicism), her post

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[furiosity]

You know, I realised over the past few days why the whole "you are hostile and/or angry and therefore your opinion doesn't matter" is so severely amusing to me (in that "funny but sad" kind of way), because I can point to a dozen fannish rants I've posted over the years where I was indeed very angry and even hostile about all manner of things -- like who tops in a slash pairing or how to spell correctly -- in other words, things that have zero relevance to any truly important matters. The response was usually an overwhelming "word". Kinney knows how many disagreed but said nothing because of fandom's ingrained culture of "say nothing if you have nothing nice to say", but my point is that how come I get to post angry screeds like, "Draco Malfoy's fanfic personality, ur doin it rong!" and have people go "yeah, you're right" and "I love your rants :D :D!" but the minute any unprivileged person reacts to privilege with any amount of anger, they are suddenly "too emotional" and their arguments are thus insta-invalidated just because they're not exhibiting enough cool detachment? What the fuck, fandom!

[_inbetween_]

You answered your own (rhetorical) question there; only the priviliged are allowed and able to rant. On anything really - lately the small issues of fandom disagreement have been forgotten, but any major attack on firm fandom favourites by someone who's not securely established get equally torn apart or brushed aside.

[furiosity]

I wasn't actually asking a question; "what the fuck" is rhetorical. I also don't think it is at all appropriate to compare actual privilege (and thus lack thereof) to "fandom status". :\

[glockgal]

Seriously, right? Emotion = bad in fandom! Well, only if you're forcing someone to actually unpack something awful within themselves. But it's ok to soapbox passionately about how unfair it is that this pairing gets less attention than that pairing!!