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[lls_mutant]

It is raining out, and I feel like doing absolutely nothing today. So far, I seem to be on track to accomplish my goal :P The kids are home today due to schools being closed for Rosh Hashanah. I let them play Minecraft for a few hours. If there was a good day for them to play videogames, this is it

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[lls_mutant]

I know, right? There's nothing wrong with a job where you can have a life outside work! Even if there are nights your life is just relaxing and doing anything but thinking about work.

I do think that fandom acceptance is complex. I think sports are as much an industry as they are a fandom, and because there is money to be had (and people really know it), that makes it more socially acceptable. As people discover there is money to be had in more female-favored fandom activities, the stigma starts falling away a bit. I do think the sex factor plays in, because the exposure our fandom gets is things like 50 Shades of Gray, instead of more gen-like stories. I mean, screw no-kink shaming- I'm in fandom and I get weirded out by some of the stuff that gets written. (Although rarely in BSG. We're a pretty vanilla fandom.) And I definitely think that sexism is a huge factor. But even in the sexism aspects, it's not always as simple as "eww, girls do it." (Although sometimes it is, especially when male geeks into fandoms mock women for doing the same damn thing.) But I probably am not proficient enough to discuss that well- just enough to say "it's more than worrying about cooties."

It's definitely complicated and interesting.