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

[seraangel.livejournal.com]

I'm always somewhat bewildered by that point of view. Anyone with more then a thimbleful of empathy can usually think their way around how others may feel. Yeah, you might have to do a bit more research then someone already in that culture but research isn't a horrible thing anyhow.

It was what always amused me about people who kept telling me I should write about what I knew rather then doing things like writing from the point of view of a World War 2 soldier (The story I had been writing at the time.) because I obviously had never been to war, so I wouldn't know what that was like.

In other words, people are dumb.