Sometimes fandom makes me tired

[erda]

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.

Comments

[facetofcathy]

So um, you read some of those posts on slash, feminism, etc. too, huh?

I'm going to re-read number 4 a few times to remind myself that my world view is not universal and sometimes I need to get over myself.

Oops, doing this wrong.

Um--how dare you not support me in all my ideologies!!!!

Don't you know we are all the same? We are all women, and we are all exactly alike, just like Harry Mudd's women in TOS!

[glitterandlube]

This is basically what I've seen as well. Frankly, since they're making me hate women, they might be onto something.

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: Maybe this means the het and slash comms will separate again, and I can enjoy my slash in piece. Plus! We're rebels again! Yay!

[skinscript]

well, in real fanlife I've written some fine het. I wonder if that makes me acceptable, or elitist? *laughing*

I think I am glad that I haven't read the posts that started yours, cause I have the feeling that they would have turned my already bad mood positively toxic.

GO KINK LOVERS FOR THE WIN!!!