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prophetic

don't cross the streams

Mar 03, 2009 22:38

I just sent the email below to some RL friends, because we were talking about stuff. I'm in the midst of freaking out about it now, like, did I really just tell these people who I know FROM CHURCH about all this stuff?

/o\

I am uncomfortable about this much overlap between these two areas of my life. I think I'm moving in the right direction-- ( Read more... )

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tempore March 4 2009, 14:49:42 UTC

I like the way you are introducing it, because it puts fandom on the table as being a valid platform of expression-- and an outlet. I think that where you mention that women in our demographic aren't particularly persecuted, this is true, but we are providing our own safe haven against something for which we are persecuted: our sexuality. Fandom is less about gay sexuality than it is about being a place in which women have the chance to express that sexuality -- especially young women who don't want to be confined to the stereotypes of Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears, molded by society into a teenage Madonna/whore. Strange, too, because I don't see the equivalent with males-- boys are not pushed into being the Jonas Bros (most boys, I think, would find them lame) or the Backstreet Boys or whatever boy band is the thing nowadays. Because women are marginalized very much into good girl/bad girl stereotypes, especially in high school and early college perhaps, where as the worth of heterosexual males are not held up to quite the same ( ... )

prophetic March 4 2009, 15:41:12 UTC

:) :) :)

I'm happy you approve! And I love what you have to add. You are absolutely right about the women's sexuality stuff, and also about everything else fic deals with.

boys are not pushed into being the Jonas Bros (most boys, I think, would find them lame)

Bwah! I have a funny Jonas Brothers story, but I'll have to save it since I need to go to work now.

Thanks for everything you have to add!!

tempore March 5 2009, 02:21:51 UTC

Okay, but at some point, you have to tell me the JoBro story. :) And I'm totally overgeneralizing there, I know, btw, but I do think there is a different standard for boys than there is for girls.

prophetic March 6 2009, 00:51:08 UTC

Okay, I had to do some research to fill in the relevant details of this story--I just happened to see it on TV one night, and it cracked me up like nobody's business ( ... )

tempore March 6 2009, 02:01:10 UTC

Ahhaha, I love the one -- my daughter has their poster on the wall. :)

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