(My second post and my God, why the firstt one looks like a compact block of a text which must be a pain to read?-_-; Sorry for that and my lack of skills in html...^^; )
"Calling them "individuals" isn't a way of disregarding the gender issues at work here." And I found personnaly depreciative and limitative to reduce an individual to his/her gender. And I don't think that women have beguined to write fanfiction because they're women, are enjoying it because they're women and have built fandom in the purpose of create a free space for female. So why are you considering those who have built fandom like women instead of fans, or writers? Those people are nothing outside of their gender? Their behaviour is strictly controled by their gender?
"Whereas women can never forget the fact that they're female, and the social context that goes with that." So women could never picture themselves as anything else that a woman? They're trapped in the patriarchy to the point they always act in reaction to an opressive pattern, they could never act and think by themselves outside of the place which are allowed to them by the patriarchy?
"But that aspect of fandom should be preserved and I don't see what the issue with those who utilize and value it fighting against its co-optation." I never said that this side of fandom shouldn't be preserved, but you were talking only about this side in your previous post.
Well, capitalism is a very complex issue and there is people more competent that me about this matter, but if you want my opinion, I think that capitalism could deal with gender equality without problem and could survive in a world free of the patriarchy.
(sigh) I hope that I didn't sound offensive or narrow-minded, and in the worse case, well, we could agree to desagree.^__^;
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Re: stupidity vs. sexism
Date: 2007-05-27 01:12 am (UTC)"Calling them "individuals" isn't a way of disregarding the gender issues at work here."
And I found personnaly depreciative and limitative to reduce an individual to his/her gender.
And I don't think that women have beguined to write fanfiction because they're women, are enjoying it because they're women and have built fandom in the purpose of create a free space for female.
So why are you considering those who have built fandom like women instead of fans, or writers?
Those people are nothing outside of their gender? Their behaviour is strictly controled by their gender?
"Whereas women can never forget the fact that they're female, and the social context that goes with that."
So women could never picture themselves as anything else that a woman? They're trapped in the patriarchy to the point they always act in reaction to an opressive pattern, they could never act and think by themselves outside of the place which are allowed to them by the patriarchy?
"But that aspect of fandom should be preserved and I don't see what the issue with those who utilize and value it fighting against its co-optation."
I never said that this side of fandom shouldn't be preserved, but you were talking only about this side in your previous post.
Well, capitalism is a very complex issue and there is people more competent that me about this matter, but if you want my opinion, I think that capitalism could deal with gender equality without problem and could survive in a world free of the patriarchy.
(sigh)
I hope that I didn't sound offensive or narrow-minded, and in the worse case, well, we could agree to desagree.^__^;