Major feminist here--going on thirty years--and gender wasn't the only issue for me (or any feminist post I read), but it was a key one.
And would it have been as bad had the board been all women doing exactly what FanLib did?
Well, see, there's *no* chance in the world that there would have been an all-woman board because women hit the same kinds of glass ceilings in the media companies as they do elsewhere -- so that's part of a feminist analysis for me as well (let's add race: apparently with one possible exception, they're all white and odds are most are straight--what kind of professional puts his baby on his resume? I teachd technical writing and have a resume assignment and make students take all personal/marital/etc. information off resumes).
The one self identified woman showed that women can be just as clueless and unprofessional as the men on the board; I don't believe having a woman guarantees any sort of quality.
I keep hearing that gender was the only issue for X people--but I haven't seen any of those posts. Care to link me to some?
Because all the ones I've seen started with the insult to basic fan intelligence about copyright, bad marketing, unprofesional communication, and no surprise look it's an all male board trying to make money off a female-oriented base (and if they didn't know fanfiction is primarily female-dominated and has been since the Trek days--I was in Star Trek fandom in the seventies--then they haven't been paying attention to the fandoms they claim to be in). Gender blindness was the added insult to the overall injury.
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And would it have been as bad had the board been all women doing exactly what FanLib did?
Well, see, there's *no* chance in the world that there would have been an all-woman board because women hit the same kinds of glass ceilings in the media companies as they do elsewhere -- so that's part of a feminist analysis for me as well (let's add race: apparently with one possible exception, they're all white and odds are most are straight--what kind of professional puts his baby on his resume? I teachd technical writing and have a resume assignment and make students take all personal/marital/etc. information off resumes).
The one self identified woman showed that women can be just as clueless and unprofessional as the men on the board; I don't believe having a woman guarantees any sort of quality.
I keep hearing that gender was the only issue for X people--but I haven't seen any of those posts. Care to link me to some?
Because all the ones I've seen started with the insult to basic fan intelligence about copyright, bad marketing, unprofesional communication, and no surprise look it's an all male board trying to make money off a female-oriented base (and if they didn't know fanfiction is primarily female-dominated and has been since the Trek days--I was in Star Trek fandom in the seventies--then they haven't been paying attention to the fandoms they claim to be in). Gender blindness was the added insult to the overall injury.