sometimes I dislike what fandom does with its toys

[beccaelizabeth]

I understand that sometimes you want to play with the guys. that's fine. sometimes, only the guys. whatever.
but that doesn't mean you have to do anything to the women.
I dislike it greatly when female characters get killed off to change the emotions of men. I dislike it greatly when female characters get used as baby making machines, and discarded after their boy child arrives. I dislike it greatly regardless of whether or not the writers were getting paid for that bullshit.

It's also a really big problem to rearrange a character's life so that women are unimportant to them.
You want their guy to be their beloved now? Great. Fine. I'm there to read it. Sounds good.
But they didn't spring up blank and new, they had lives before, and they had other people who were important to them. They still do. And some of those people are women.

Or else their world and your presentation of humans is very wrong.



Honestly, some people, I think they just need to write the AU where everyone is male and be done with it. It's probably less painful than the AU where every trace of icky girl is methodically ripped from their lives and retconned from their histories.




In other creepy non news, pls to stop erasing characters of color. Comics are arses enough about this in the first place. If you take comics derived canon and feel the need to make it more white, you have a serious problem.



... I read stuff based on TV and comics where they do terrible things to women and ethnic minorities, and then fans of those properties do yet more terrible things to women and ethnic minorities. Because they liked them in the first place?
... sometimes filters are set wrong.


This is resembles a more-of vs more-from problem. I don't want more-of from the canon I seek out fanfic of, if all I want is more-of then I have canon to explore. I want more-from, and the only more I can reliably get from fandom is more queer white men. This is not sufficient.


These fiction worlds are freaky weird snapshots that leave so much out already. Pls to be putting it back in and having actual people again.

Comments

[philippos42]

Wow. Seriously?

OK, I gave up on fanfic pretty seriously a while back, and the stuff I read now, since looking at it again, has typically been sorted by female character or following writers that I already know from looking at stuff sorted by female character, and so there are typically women in it.

But yeah, I have a low tolerance for women writers who only want to write their M/M fantasies.

[baronjanus]

First part, I agree completely.

Second part, I agree completely, BUT. Okay, here's my but. It's not a but against the theory, not at all. But what if I can't seem to write what I want to write? How do I change that? I'm asking seriously because I want to change it.

[beccaelizabeth]

I haven't done any fiction writing since before my last year at college, and it has been almost a year since I handed in my last bit of college work. so inability to write isn't something I have successful advice about. at all.

OT

[baronjanus]

Remember a long time ago you were looking for disability fic? There's some in History Boys, post-movie/play.