I just literally finished reading an article about author Hugh Howey and his support of fanfiction in his Wool universe and was all, "What a righteous dude!"

And I then saw a link to this come across Twitter not ten minutes later: The Bitch From Worldcon. And added another author to my list of "not worth my time or money ( Read more... )

So men discover a kid's (and very explicitly gendered 'girl') show and become fans and write fic, make art and vids and Wired is all "OMG, amazing and cool!" And people say, "'When I say ‘amazing,’ I’m referring to the crazy amount of content and the hard-working people who produce material every day, which I haven’t seen in many other fan bases ( Read more... )

If you want to protect reproductive rights, that includes ALL aspects of reproduction, not just abortion and birth control. If you're arguing for abortion and birth control to be in women's control, but also arguing based on extreme cases that women undergoing fertility treatments need psychological evaluations before they're allowed treatment, or ( Read more... )

( Spoilers. Not positive comment on Dr. Horrible )

Oh, and while we're on the subject of OMFG REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY, the Department of Health and Human Services Monday released a proposal that allows any federal grant recipient to obstruct a woman's access to contraception. In order to do this, the Department is attempting to redefine many forms of contraception, the birth ( Read more... )

1. The women who started/participated in the OSBP are not weak, complicit in their own oppression, slutty, easy, deluded, desperate, etc. and so forth. I fully buy that they found this a comfortable, freeing, positive experience within the safe space that they had created, and that's awesome. They're stupid only in that they did not think this ( Read more... )

The Open Source Boob Project (I've linked to a cut tag that contains the original post. The Ferrett has posted an update at the top ( Read more... )

Since I've noticed that calling out shitty, sexist anti-women language and behavior (especially when it's coming from women) using the word misogyny is considered too harsh, and I think just calling shenanigans is too nice, I've decided we need a new word to talk about these issues. A compromise.

Misogynanigans.

So, to inaugurate it, ( Read more... )

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Not my beautiful cake and all that, but I draw the line when the Sam-bashing fic requests pop up right in the middle of my goddamn cake twice in less than two months.

Things that amuse me (in the bitchy cynical way) about the ongoing "OTW is claiming fandom in the name of wimminz!" wank: How the phrase "predominately female community" in "We value our identity as a predominantly female community with a rich history of creativity and commentary" gets rephrased EVERY. SINGLE. FUCKING. TIME as "female dominated ( Read more... )