Fangenderqueer?

[kateorman]

It becomes ever more obvious that, in a number of ways, I'm a boy. It began when I hung around with my brothers' mates as a teenager. It continued when I came to fandom in my late teens, and when I came to online fandom in my mid-twenties. I didn't think of myself as male. For example, as a young fan, I identified with the powerful female

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[louisedennis]

I'm what the US would term a Maths Major. I work with computers and adore programming. I'm a Who fan. I enjoy making lists. I gain pleasure from collecting sets of things. I become distressed if required to divide my attention even for short periods of time. I don't think that's a socialisation thing - I have no brothers, I went to an all girls school - so as far as I'm concerned its probably brain wiring at some level.

We've been in the same Internet spaces on and off since about 1993. You have been a lot more visible and active than I which may be the author thing, but may be about my, I guess, very female socialisation growing up, compared to yours. Significantly, perhaps, I was never a member of PMEB.

I have become a lot more (pro)active online in the last 18 months, since discovering LJ, and I've become more active back in old, traditionally male, Who spaces as well as here. Which I find interesting, I'm not sure exactly where it leads as a train of thought yet.

But I don't feel I entirely fit in "female" fandom either, partly because slash simply does nothing for me which I suspect goes back to the brain wiring and, linking back to your previous post, squeeing often (but not always) does strike me as an immature reaction. I have a lot of the concerns that get vocalised in metafandom although, on the whole, I find the amount of fic that actually strikes me as problematic (as opposed to simply not of much interest to me, personally) is lower than metafandom would sometimes have you believe.

No conclusions. Just experiences and my own ongoing thought process.