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Sometimes fandom makes me tired
Okay, let's see if I've gotten this right in my head now. I've learned a lot of things from fandom, so I thought I'd give back by making a list to help people step all over each other better. The lower the number of the type of story that gets you off, the more feminist and morally superior person you are. The higher the number of your favorite type of porn, the more you suck. Some categories overlap and require a bit of interpretation, but I think this does well as an overall outline.
1.Het – yes, baby, if you like het you are number one and win the feminist competition. You have no issues and are totally well adjusted, healthy, not carrying any of those black marks of mental illness so many of the people below you have to deal with. Feel free to ridicule, revile and stomp all over everyone below you.
2.Femslash- you're still okay if this is your thing, because you still love women. Pat yourself on the back.
3.Threesomes and moresomes- as long as there's at least one good woman in the mix, you can rest your conscience. However you might want to ask yourself why you feel you need men to enjoy your porn. You don't want to become dependent on men for anything.
4.Extremely schmoopy vanilla slash- baby you're weak, but at least your heart is in the right place. Just as long as the guys switch it up and you have no preference for top or bottom, cause man, that means you got some internalized misogyny there which everyone above you on this list is utterly free of.
5.General kinks-haha, you're a little strange but you will be tolerated by most of the people who don't read that stuff, though secretly they think you are messed up.
6.BDSM-yeah, you need help. Not only do you hate women, you probably like to beat up on men, too.
7.Watersports- baby you're sick. Hardly anyone in fandom reads this stuff. Er, at least, hardly anyone comments on it.
8.Bestiality-stay in your own comms, okay? We don't want that shit around here.
Does that about cover it? Feel free to go at each other; it's what we're here for, right? We have no larger enemy to fight.
1.Het – yes, baby, if you like het you are number one and win the feminist competition. You have no issues and are totally well adjusted, healthy, not carrying any of those black marks of mental illness so many of the people below you have to deal with. Feel free to ridicule, revile and stomp all over everyone below you.
2.Femslash- you're still okay if this is your thing, because you still love women. Pat yourself on the back.
3.Threesomes and moresomes- as long as there's at least one good woman in the mix, you can rest your conscience. However you might want to ask yourself why you feel you need men to enjoy your porn. You don't want to become dependent on men for anything.
4.Extremely schmoopy vanilla slash- baby you're weak, but at least your heart is in the right place. Just as long as the guys switch it up and you have no preference for top or bottom, cause man, that means you got some internalized misogyny there which everyone above you on this list is utterly free of.
5.General kinks-haha, you're a little strange but you will be tolerated by most of the people who don't read that stuff, though secretly they think you are messed up.
6.BDSM-yeah, you need help. Not only do you hate women, you probably like to beat up on men, too.
7.Watersports- baby you're sick. Hardly anyone in fandom reads this stuff. Er, at least, hardly anyone comments on it.
8.Bestiality-stay in your own comms, okay? We don't want that shit around here.
Does that about cover it? Feel free to go at each other; it's what we're here for, right? We have no larger enemy to fight.
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Yes, this.
Here, have one of my pitiful attempts at icon making. I think yours is hilarious.
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And the way to combat that kind of misogyny in media and the misogyny that does exist in all fandoms, is to bash an entire genre. I read the post that pushed you over the edge on this one, and that person has a serious case of having all the answers.
I could write a list of the reasons why I tend not to write women characters even as minor OCs, and I think I could get to 100 easy before I got to internalized misogyny.
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Agreed, but even when there is misogyny, blaming the victim for the damage done to them DOESN'T HELP.