Some feminism goodness
Dang, I'm just on a roll with new posts within the last couple days, aren't I?
Apparently, there's been a couple reports on misogyny, or reports that involve some level of misogyny in different comms as of late, which is how I found THIS. It's a wonderful post written by bookshop who addresses misogyny in slash fandom. I wanted to pass this along and felt this deserved its own post because of this very blunt, but very true quote:
"Fandom is not woman-positive. Fandom needs all the urging it can get just to talk about female characters, let alone talk about them nicely. Fandom prioritizes men above everything. Fandom prioritizes male-based fantasies, and fandom prioritizes the status of the people who write those fantasies."
Fandom perpetuates rape culture by silencing women, and we silence women when we remove women from our own narratives, when we refuse to write or read about women, when we talk about how female characters are stupid, slutty, saucy, too strong or too weak to enjoy, not written well enough, not worthy of as much attention as the boys are. We perpetuate victim-shaming when we degrade "women's issues" as inferior, icky, and gross. We perpetuate misogyny when we venerate canons that have high numbers of male characters and only one or two girls. We perpetuate the idea that boys' stories are better than our own, the idea that boys are better than us."
Apparently, there's been a couple reports on misogyny, or reports that involve some level of misogyny in different comms as of late, which is how I found THIS. It's a wonderful post written by bookshop who addresses misogyny in slash fandom. I wanted to pass this along and felt this deserved its own post because of this very blunt, but very true quote:
"Fandom is not woman-positive. Fandom needs all the urging it can get just to talk about female characters, let alone talk about them nicely. Fandom prioritizes men above everything. Fandom prioritizes male-based fantasies, and fandom prioritizes the status of the people who write those fantasies."
Fandom perpetuates rape culture by silencing women, and we silence women when we remove women from our own narratives, when we refuse to write or read about women, when we talk about how female characters are stupid, slutty, saucy, too strong or too weak to enjoy, not written well enough, not worthy of as much attention as the boys are. We perpetuate victim-shaming when we degrade "women's issues" as inferior, icky, and gross. We perpetuate misogyny when we venerate canons that have high numbers of male characters and only one or two girls. We perpetuate the idea that boys' stories are better than our own, the idea that boys are better than us."