But fandom doesn't hate women!
I was going to just post this as part of my con report, but having run across the bi-annual request for Sam bashing fic, my ire is riding a little high on the topic. Again.
So the lowlight of the otherwise great SG-1 panels at Dragon*Con was during the big panel (around 2000 people) on Saturday, where someone decided that the jackass move of asking Paul McGillion and Jason Momoa if their characters would kill Sam Carter as the first fan question of the panel was a great idea.
Which it wasn't. Not only did the asker sound like a jackass, but how incredibly disrespectful to Amanda Tapping to ask that question about her character to two new coworkers, and in front of her other longtime coworkers and friends.
There's a much longer post in all this that I want to write, addressing the impact of social context on fan perceptions of female characters, what baggage and enculturated norms fans bring to their perceptions, and fandom's unwillingness to own it's shit about it's sexist and occasionally misogynist treatment and interactions with female characters (like laying all the blame at the feet of the writers or actors and claiming thatr fandom can't be sexist because we're all women), but right now I'd like to ride the high of D*C and fannish glee for a little longer, because writing that post is going to make me a very cranky fan.
So the lowlight of the otherwise great SG-1 panels at Dragon*Con was during the big panel (around 2000 people) on Saturday, where someone decided that the jackass move of asking Paul McGillion and Jason Momoa if their characters would kill Sam Carter as the first fan question of the panel was a great idea.
Which it wasn't. Not only did the asker sound like a jackass, but how incredibly disrespectful to Amanda Tapping to ask that question about her character to two new coworkers, and in front of her other longtime coworkers and friends.
There's a much longer post in all this that I want to write, addressing the impact of social context on fan perceptions of female characters, what baggage and enculturated norms fans bring to their perceptions, and fandom's unwillingness to own it's shit about it's sexist and occasionally misogynist treatment and interactions with female characters (like laying all the blame at the feet of the writers or actors and claiming thatr fandom can't be sexist because we're all women), but right now I'd like to ride the high of D*C and fannish glee for a little longer, because writing that post is going to make me a very cranky fan.