Fanfic 'feminism': The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

[deathpixie]

A few links popped up on various friendslists recently, so I thought I'd compile them for people to read.


The Good is from Jezrana, on Insane Journal, who I found via a [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] post. Here, she brings some much needed sense to a very scary place.

The Bad: Dissenter (who seems to be the same [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] who comments first on the next link below), and her essay on slash as misogynistic. Jezrana's post is in response to this, which is the same pseudo-intellectual twaddle as the next post:

The Ugly: [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]'s post on Firefly as a propaganda vehicle for the male patriarchy, and in her comments states her belief that Joss Whedon rapes his wife, since anyone who wrote Firefly has to be the worst example of men ever.


Both Dissenter and _allecto_ have comment screening policies, in that they delete anything that contradicts their rather offensive drivel. I've always loathed this type of feminist, the sort that seems to believe the greatest sin anyone can commit is to be born male - if you have a penis, according to them, you have no redeeming qualities whatsoever. *grfs*

Comments

[maelie.livejournal.com]

Haven't read the links, but would like to point out that "feminist" shouldn't be the term to use. Being a feminist wanting equal rights for both women and men. Applying the term "feminist" to anything different, even as a "brand" of feminism, is what hurts the cause when winding up as misinformation (people believing you can only be a feminist if you're female, or that you can't be a feminist if you don't want superiority, etc).

[deathpixie]

I used the term feminist because that's how these women identify themselves. Perhaps I should go back and add inverted commas.

But yeah, agree with you there. For a long time I called myself an 'equalist' or 'humanist', because all the 'feminists' I'd met in university were of the separatist lesbian type who advocated consigning men to an inferior role. And I wasn't the only one of my peer group who thought like that. As you say, it hurts the cause.