I sort of wrote a manifesto. With many thanks to everyone who talked with me yesterday, and especially to odiarda, whose own take on things really helped me to work through some ideas that were there, but not gelling.
Loved it.
DITTO.
What makes me angry is that fangirls are used as click-bait and turned on ourselves, all because what we love and what we do fails an arbitrary, masculinist litmus test for critical or ironic distance. And that, even after nearly a century, it’s a practice that shows few signs of abating.
Pretty much this, yes. Because sports fans can dye their hair team colors or spend thousands on tickets or riot in the streets when their team loses and that’s normal and even expected, but when online fans – not all girls, btw; I really want fandom to look hard at themselves and stop with the “fangirl” assumption – have a reaction to an event in their fandom universe, it’s seen as non-masculine, silly, and, dare I say, immature.
Fuck that noise. And fuck the hyper-masculine default of acceptable behavior.
Fangirls in the Crosshairs | some of us are looking at the stars
Lady Karasu 