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

[dexfarkin.livejournal.com]

*shrug* It's intellectually lazy analysis, taking situations and viewing them through a rigidly predefined prism. Whether it's extreme feminism, neo-Marxist thought, radical religious extremes, any sort of code of thought which has no capacity for contextual analysis is by and large nothing but worthless pseudo-intellectual narcissism. She's an extreme wyman queer feminist, due to a self-professed rejection of men. As a result, the currency of her opinion is worthless because it is self-admittedly biased.

To use 'feminist' as a description is really not accurate, because her views are far to the extreme of mainstream feminism, like saying al-Quida represents Islam.

People driven by ideology have no capacity for context, which is by and large where truth and understanding exist. Pity them and ignore them, because you won't ever change them.