Kate's Fannish Gender, concluded

[dreamer_easy]

I fear my attempt to get across my thoughts on fanboy and fangirl have been a flop, with many readers thinking I was labelling actual men and women, rather than trying to make the same distinction that exists between maleness and masculinity. This is partly due to other peoples' assumptions, and partly due to my utter lack of clarity on the topic. Ah well, I remain both a fanboy and a fangirl, concurrently or consecutively.

More to chew on:

motiveforce ponders gendered fandom and the geek male.

Frightening Fangirls: On Being a Male Fushigi Yuugi Fan


Sadly, the thread in doctorwho about n00bz girl germs has vanished.

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[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

Sadly, the thread in doctorwho about n00bz girl germs has vanished.

Well, I saved my cached copy of it, but I didn't have all the collapsed subthreads.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Slip me it in email! korman@spamcop.net

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

Done.

That thread got fandom_wank (http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/731783.html)ed, too.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Thanks hugely!

From what I saw, I must say the fandom_wanking was even more desperate than I thought - a light-hearted and courteous discussion. The fandom_wank poster had to considerably distort the content to make it sound like an actual flamefest. There must have been soem savage stuff somewhere in those buried comments to get such a mild thread yanked from doctorwho.

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

They got a fun Doctor-sandwich thread going out of it, so it wasn't completely pointless.