I'll ramble, and I'll rant, and I'll blow your house down

[lyras]

You know what really winds me up? People reading fic so they can gloat over a woman not getting the guy because (OMG!) he turns out to fancy Sirius or Draco or whoever. And other assorted instances of misogyny and sexism in fandom - of which I've seen plenty recently, both in fic and in people's behaviour. It really disturbs me the way some

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[mrsquizzical]

brava

[lyras]

<3

[pocketfullof]

Have a slice of word pie.

[lyras]

Why, thank you!

[djin7]

Yes! I have trouble with a lot of epilogue compliant fic, because it is rife with Ginny bashing. :( Pls to be stopping that. I'd rather have EWE fic, so that I don't have to again read about Ginny "ShrewBitchGoldDigger" (Weasley)Potter.

[lyras]

Totally. I'd much rather read EWE or even AU rather than some convoluted excuse that turns Ginny or Hermione into, well, I can't improve on your "ShrewBitchGoldDigger".

[krabapple]

Oh, man. I could go on about this all day. It's so large and it crosses fandom lines. Either it's Ginny or Hermione or Lily in HP, or Elizabeth Weir or Jennifer Keller in SGA, or, you know, any woman character ever on Supernatural.

I just. Come on, ladies. The patriarchy is doing just fine on its own without our help.

[lyras]

The patriarchy is doing just fine on its own without our help.

This is what it comes down to, for me. Sorry to hear it's so prevalent in other fandoms as well :(.

[such_heights]

So much this! I mean, Lord, I thought HP was bad and then I discovered Torchwood fandom, ugh. The female lead on the show, who dares to have chemistry with one half of one of the most popular boyslash pairings ever? Clearly she must die. Bleurgh. I could write essays on the hypocrisy and bollocks of fandom's continuing attitude towards Gwen Cooper, seriously.

[lyras]

I saw the edges of the Gwen hate on my flist, but am pleased that I was clueless enough not to understand it (although I must admit that after that video you posted the other day, Torchwood has shot to the top of my list of Things to Watch!).

It just freaks me out so much. We should be on the same side here, given our battles in real life.

[snowandsunshine]

Gah, pet hate. For God sake, I mean I have issues with the way Tosh and Gwen were handled by the writers in series 1 (and that's a whole different of kettle of fish), they were fab in series 2 , but bashing them in stories because they get in the way of your favourite pairing , well I throw my hands up in despair. What's more, when you attack the looks of the actress because the character gets in the way of your man lovin' ? Well, we've gone beyond the ridiculous.

I've also noticed this in several Supernatural reviews last night - either complete denial about a female character getting one of the boys, or bashing both her and the actress because she got with one of the boys. For further examples see Cuddy, Cameron and Amber in House

[lyras]

It's comments like these that make me very glad I only have one fandom to deal with! I'm not sure I could stand to see this sort of stuff all over my flist instead of occasionally around the edges of it.