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Jun. 17th, 2006 08:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I just turned off the Doctor Who Confidential
because it started going on about 'no longer just for the boys'
I've been in fandoms where there *were* no boys
so why does it have to get so... self congratulatory about fandom having women in it?
it isn't sudden!
I don't know, have I just managed to skip all the all male fandoms?
Do they actually exist?
conventions have more males at them than I expect from online fandom.
But as actual viewers? I've watched shows that decided they had too *many* women, and kept tweaking it to try and get some boys in.
Am I defining SF more broadly than them?
*shrugs*
I turned off the tv. Because a show that seems surprised at my very existence is just not valuable to me. And a show that seems to think it did something new and shiny to get me to be there, when my DW video collection has a bookshelf to itself, well, one of us is delusional and it isn't me.
because it started going on about 'no longer just for the boys'
I've been in fandoms where there *were* no boys
so why does it have to get so... self congratulatory about fandom having women in it?
it isn't sudden!
I don't know, have I just managed to skip all the all male fandoms?
Do they actually exist?
conventions have more males at them than I expect from online fandom.
But as actual viewers? I've watched shows that decided they had too *many* women, and kept tweaking it to try and get some boys in.
Am I defining SF more broadly than them?
*shrugs*
I turned off the tv. Because a show that seems surprised at my very existence is just not valuable to me. And a show that seems to think it did something new and shiny to get me to be there, when my DW video collection has a bookshelf to itself, well, one of us is delusional and it isn't me.