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Apr. 23rd, 2014 04:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valarltdSo there's this t-shirt.
"I like my fangirls like I like my coffee. I hate coffee."
(there is a fanboy variant too)
And it's making the rounds of the con blogs.
Yes. It is a basic micro-aggression.
And their definition of "Fangirl/boy" is offensive to those of us who identify as such.
I have had my squeeing fangirl moments:
Meeting Leslie Fish and Esther Friesner (I actually told Esther, "Please forgive while I fangirl all over you," and told her which of her books I had read and loved)
Having Terry Prachett express disappointment that my pirate party had been the previous night and he hadn't known.
Getting a hug from Nicholas Brendan
Getting a wink from Norman Reedus
Loaning Marta Kristen my pocket-knife. (I bounced for three days: "Judy Robinson borrowed my pocketknife!")
In no way did these experiences damage anyone else's enjoyment of their media. In no way were these disrespectful to shows, creators or stars.
There is a breed of badly raised, feral fan who will write her kinky slash fic and shove it on the stars or writers. This is Bad Behavior. Anyone who spends the least time in fanfic communities is taught "We Do Not Do This!" They are told the tales of Blake's 7 and Marion Zimmer Bradley.
I wrote fanfic. Sometimes I still do. And yeah, Io9 referenced "What Says the Wind" and only mentioned the Jabba/Luke slash concept, and missed the work on the rest of the AU. My writing fanfiction, so long as I am not shoving it on people yelling "read this, it is the sin qua non of all fic!" should not affect anyone else's enjoyment of the fandom.
My point: I am an industry professional. I am a fangirl. And I defy him to mansplain to me how my Being Female in Fandom is ruining his life.
"I like my fangirls like I like my coffee. I hate coffee."
(there is a fanboy variant too)
And it's making the rounds of the con blogs.
Yes. It is a basic micro-aggression.
And their definition of "Fangirl/boy" is offensive to those of us who identify as such.
I have had my squeeing fangirl moments:
Meeting Leslie Fish and Esther Friesner (I actually told Esther, "Please forgive while I fangirl all over you," and told her which of her books I had read and loved)
Having Terry Prachett express disappointment that my pirate party had been the previous night and he hadn't known.
Getting a hug from Nicholas Brendan
Getting a wink from Norman Reedus
Loaning Marta Kristen my pocket-knife. (I bounced for three days: "Judy Robinson borrowed my pocketknife!")
In no way did these experiences damage anyone else's enjoyment of their media. In no way were these disrespectful to shows, creators or stars.
There is a breed of badly raised, feral fan who will write her kinky slash fic and shove it on the stars or writers. This is Bad Behavior. Anyone who spends the least time in fanfic communities is taught "We Do Not Do This!" They are told the tales of Blake's 7 and Marion Zimmer Bradley.
I wrote fanfic. Sometimes I still do. And yeah, Io9 referenced "What Says the Wind" and only mentioned the Jabba/Luke slash concept, and missed the work on the rest of the AU. My writing fanfiction, so long as I am not shoving it on people yelling "read this, it is the sin qua non of all fic!" should not affect anyone else's enjoyment of the fandom.
My point: I am an industry professional. I am a fangirl. And I defy him to mansplain to me how my Being Female in Fandom is ruining his life.
