They're deluding themselves. The slash was ALWAYS there *GRIN*
When I went to Bad Wolf last year I also got this feeling of having stepped into new territory. Bad Wolf was not fandom as I knew it. There were actual males everywhere. Deeply weird.
The Rift? Fandom as I know it - women running things, women in the audience, and slash on stage. Is this a time thing? Did we really not have fandom as I know it in most of the 20th century? Or do we have two sorts of fandom running in parallel, women in one corner and men in another? Either way, pretty frakkin weird.
Gally was a good mix of both, although I did notice that there were slightly more male classic fans and more female new fans. Just slightly - it basically works out to about even. The completely average fan at Gally, I'd say, would be male OR female, in their mid-twenties to mid-thirties, either watched the end of the classic series and got back in to it with the new, or people like me who started with the new and went backwards. There were no more exclusively classic fans than exclusively new fans, I found, which is cool ^_^
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Date: 2008-05-18 06:03 am (UTC)When I went to Bad Wolf last year I also got this feeling of having stepped into new territory. Bad Wolf was not fandom as I knew it. There were actual males everywhere. Deeply weird.
The Rift? Fandom as I know it - women running things, women in the audience, and slash on stage.
Is this a time thing? Did we really not have fandom as I know it in most of the 20th century? Or do we have two sorts of fandom running in parallel, women in one corner and men in another? Either way, pretty frakkin weird.
Gally was a good mix of both, although I did notice that there were slightly more male classic fans and more female new fans. Just slightly - it basically works out to about even. The completely average fan at Gally, I'd say, would be male OR female, in their mid-twenties to mid-thirties, either watched the end of the classic series and got back in to it with the new, or people like me who started with the new and went backwards. There were no more exclusively classic fans than exclusively new fans, I found, which is cool ^_^