I've been watching most of the fanlib debate without really participating myself, but I do feel the need to point out that I think the gender argument has been terribly overplayed, and has been cause for a rant from one of my favourite fic authors who happens to be a fanboy, despite the fact that he and I both agree on many of the points brought up in all this debate. :p
It is kind of insulting I find to see pseudo-feminist views brought up as supposedly strong arguments, and I am sure most people, when thinking of other people don't think of them as exclusively "O+" or "<-o", but as "readers" "writers" "fans" "employees" "employers" and so on. I don't deny that feminism* has done good for woman in the past, or that there's been no need for it, I'm just saying that I'm kind of irked at seeing people pointing and saying "Male Oppression!" without real cause to.
*I also want to point out that I am well aware that feminist theory is a huge subject, and I hardly know anything about it, still.
And sorry if this comment is out of place, I just really felt the need to point this out. And others might have before me, though I must have missed that.
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Date: 2007-05-26 02:09 am (UTC)It is kind of insulting I find to see pseudo-feminist views brought up as supposedly strong arguments, and I am sure most people, when thinking of other people don't think of them as exclusively "O+" or "<-o", but as "readers" "writers" "fans" "employees" "employers" and so on.
I don't deny that feminism* has done good for woman in the past, or that there's been no need for it, I'm just saying that I'm kind of irked at seeing people pointing and saying "Male Oppression!" without real cause to.
*I also want to point out that I am well aware that feminist theory is a huge subject, and I hardly know anything about it, still.
And sorry if this comment is out of place, I just really felt the need to point this out.
And others might have before me, though I must have missed that.