Comments | azurejay: raise your voice every single time they try and shut your mouth.

azurejay

raise your voice every single time they try and shut your mouth.

Nov 21, 2010 11:49

1. It snowed between three and five inches the other night, and the city basically shut down yesterday. Oh Vancouver.

2. This post about how people who often complain about anti-oppression fail in source texts usually keep right on wallowing in Two White Guys fandoms, instead of giving time to source texts that are better to women/POCs/people with ( Read more... )

(writing process) writting prossess, (more meta) modesty closet, (fandom) plausible like gravity, (meta) incontrovertible facts, (irl) is not only a noun but also a verb

Comments 5

seimaisin November 21 2010, 20:12:40 UTC

I do like that post - and the occasional posts that crop up like it - a lot, because I think it's a good reminder. I'm not always the best about finding fandoms with a lot of diversity myself, but as someone who historically prefers her pairings/fandoms to include female characters, fandom's fixation on men gets a little irritating sometimes. It's good to remind myself that it's not just women who get short shrift in fannish circles most of the time.

... that having been said, my main reason for commenting was to say I've heard good things about Lost Girl, and might have to go searching for it myself! :)

estrellada November 21 2010, 20:43:46 UTC

Dear BJ,

Watch all of Buffy already.

Love,

Feminism.

saffronra November 21 2010, 22:17:14 UTC

I enjoyed Rizzoli and Isles very much this summer. The two lead characters are both women. If they were men, there would be the most enormous slash fandom built around it already. :(

baked_goldfish November 22 2010, 02:02:42 UTC

Undercovers. Some people found it boring. I was not one of those people. There were explosions and shooty-things and jumping out of planes and such. And there were hot leads.

wilde_stallyn November 22 2010, 11:36:08 UTC

Pretty much all the TV I'm currently following features white male leads, so this got me thinking about what all past shows I've been invested in, either in fandom or just as a viewer, that didn't star white guys. It was an interesting exercise. I came up with: Buffy, Dark Angel, Veronica Mars, ST: Voyager, ST: DS9, Xena, Oz, Sol Bianca, My So-Called Life, Gilmore Girls, Angelic Layer, Space Cases, Golden Girls. (I didn't include anime series about Japanese men, because that seemed like stretching things.)