I finally found the thread (and responded) and I think it's definitely a case of people existing in the same fandom in COMPLETELY diferent locales. And it's bizarre to see people applying the norm for one forum to the entire fandom at large.
But at the same time, I was shocked when I joined OG (which I see as increasingly insular the more I post on the forums there) so I suppose it's a two-way street. All of my experience with media fandom--on-line and off--has been primarily with women, with the sole exception of comics fandom for about a decade there. But even comics has coem closer to gender parity in the last few years. OG just continues to throw me, with the bizarre "boys club" attitude.
LJ for me was a totally logical migration from mailing lists and Usenet (which is where I primarily hung out in the 1990s). And I followed folks FROM fandom to LJ (namely, Ann Larimer and Susan Garrett and a bunch of other folk from FK fandom) and so I was still, for the first year or so I was on LJ, hanging out with the same folks I'd hung out with at cons like MediaWest and on lists. It's only really the last 2-3 years that LJ has become my primary stomping ground.
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Date: 2005-10-19 01:42 am (UTC)But at the same time, I was shocked when I joined OG (which I see as increasingly insular the more I post on the forums there) so I suppose it's a two-way street. All of my experience with media fandom--on-line and off--has been primarily with women, with the sole exception of comics fandom for about a decade there. But even comics has coem closer to gender parity in the last few years. OG just continues to throw me, with the bizarre "boys club" attitude.
LJ for me was a totally logical migration from mailing lists and Usenet (which is where I primarily hung out in the 1990s). And I followed folks FROM fandom to LJ (namely, Ann Larimer and Susan Garrett and a bunch of other folk from FK fandom) and so I was still, for the first year or so I was on LJ, hanging out with the same folks I'd hung out with at cons like MediaWest and on lists. It's only really the last 2-3 years that LJ has become my primary stomping ground.