Feminism means liberation. Stop trying to oppress me with it.

[snowlight]

I am suddenly hit with the realization that I gave up on Harry Potter not because Sirius Black died. No, I gave up on reading Harry Potter when Sirius Black died; but what made me turn away from the whole series (as in, a total ceasing of interest in all things related to it), in retrospect, was the Harry/Ginny ship. To be fair, I had not read the

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[tearful_eye]

THIS.

i never say it anymore when i don't like some female characters - my own flist doesn't say anything, but i know many still think i'm just some sort of slash!loving-anti!female fangirl. which i'm not :( (even though i do love to slash pretty boys.) there are just as many male characters i don't like, *g* and tbh i am mostly heterosexual, and i just like guys better (even though women are prettier). it's probably why most of my favorite characters are men.

um... anyway. i'm not saying anything clever - just wanted to say i agree with this, SO MUCH.

ps. but there are a lot of anti!female!slashers who are women - so maybe it's sometimes hard to tell the difference, *shrugs* i don't know.

[snowlight]

Fortunately, this LJ has years of history behind it as my venting ground for pissing people off in the Chinese fandom. I doubt I'd mind that much if it comes to that in the English language fandom as well.

Sometimes I think the English language fandom's fault is its tolerance, almost. In the sense of "oh you have to be open-minded and like everything/everybody". But the truth is I don't, and I seriously doubt that I am alone. While I am polite enough not to say that in public space (i.e., comms and random LJs), I'll say whatever I want on my journal. (Imagine talking about why you don't like Sanji from One Piece openly when your friends are Sanji fangirls...)

As for the anti!female!slashers...my position is: I have not met any personally, and I really can't be bothered to give a flying fuck as to their motivation. I'm in a fandom to be entertained, not "educated"—and I say this as somebody coming from a highly politicized background.

(Wow. I guess I'm still mad about this.)

[karadin]

I'm in a fandom to be entertained, not "educated"

Word to that! I have my likes, I don't push them on anyone, and equally, I don't have to like what everyone else likes.

[snowberry0619]

I've been in Snape/Harry for A VERY LONG TIME, and never once dared stepping out of that ship. I have heard horror stories about how at other fandom if you don't support Ginny/Harry, you get labeled for being anti-female. If you say one bad word about Lily/Snape, you're not respecting canon. You know, being a slash fan since Slam Dunk, I really don't need to feel I have to justify why I like slash more than het. I know why I like slash, and it does not reflect my feelings towards women in any way.

Same goes with Uhura/Spock. I don't think they'd work out NOT because I hate Uhura, but I just don't see the chemistry there.

And don't even get me started on the Chinese fandom, omg.

[snowlight]

Eh, in Chinese fandoms het/yaoi tend to be pretty separated from each other, in my experience? Granted I was never in HP fandom myself.

Het is almost a dirty word in Chinese fandoms, which I think is one end of an extreme. (But then again I look at all the Mary Sues and....on the other hand, it's not like yaoi in Chinese fandom isn't broken in some major way.)