everyone is the worst, except for me.

[apiphile]

Look, I don't want to piss on your party (I am not here for that kind of party, if I was I'd have brought more clear fluids an hour ago) but not everyone in fandom is a lady. Some of us, shockingly, spent a long time in fandom writing male characters because it allowed us to Be A Dude for a bit without anyone pointing and shrieking BUT MABEL THAT

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[wolfy_writing]

Classic problem with a lot of fandom meta, and a lot of internet writing - using "we" or "you" when actually referring to a specific subset of people. (See also overly-literal interpretation of healthy eating articles and the time I gave myself a salt deficiency, because Generic Internet You lives in a temperate climate, eats processed food regularly, and drinks salt-containing soft drinks the way I drink potassium-containing herbal teas.)

Also another classic problem with internet social justice activism - conflating active bad behavior (publicly whining about how dare someone write a character who's female and not charmingly pleasant) and not having the Exact Approved Set Of Feelings ("I identify with this difficult and unlikeable female character" feelings inside your head, where it's not actually anyone else's damn business).

[apiphile]

Generic internet you seems to be a very specific person most of the time. Their gender changes but I think that's about the only thing. They're always affluent, Western, white, slightly left of centre but not much, and have all the usual life ambitions as dictated by media, and I really don't know what I have in common with them at all except some of the Internet You probably uses the same transit system as me sometimes? [I didn't know soft drinks had salt in them. I mostly drink water now anyway but I suppose the riotous consumption of energy filth on work weeks provides me with Plenty of Salt].

ALMOST LIKE YOU DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE A WINDOW INTO SOMEONE ELSE'S SOUL AND THE MORE PEOPLE ACT LIKE DICKS ABOUT EVERY "WRONG" FEELING THE LESS LIKELY ANYONE IS TO GET THAT FUCKING WINDOW

[wolfy_writing]

Yeah, Generic Internet You is very predictable, and a good mark of what the people writing think of their audience. (Soft drinks have small amounts of sodium. Which is one reason why Sprite is a relatively good choice if one is having intestinal troubles and lacking optimal electrolyte replacemnt drinks.)

Shouting at people about how they must feel the exact right thing or be a bad person doesn't give you profound insight into human nature? Who knew?

[apiphile]

(Oh yeah I think you told me that before. Is this why they give you Lucozade when you're sick? I mean, in families which are not mine and do not believe that sugar and salt are evil?)

[marika_kailaya]

i am absolutely here to piss on that party.

ugh.

[apiphile]

SAVE YOUR URINE

also i love the contrast between your comment and wolfy's