fanficrants: Males

Jonathan Wrights (

lord_gribeau) wrote in

fanficrants,
@ 2005-10-11 18:11:00

Males
I'm male. I love being male.

And I'm annoyed at parts of the female fan fiction population, especially the quasi-academic, use-big-word female crowd. I'm annoyed at females who put down men in discussions regarding fan fiction. I'm annoyed at the portrayal of men in fan fiction.

If you're going to discuss men, INVITE THEM TO THE TABLE. If you look through some of the conversations on the big meta and fic journals that discuss gender, slash, & reading habits of the fan fiction writing community, you frequently see a lot of women, females, girls. Rarely do you see any men. These women, you know who I mean, will talk and talk about men. And they'll subtlely bash my wonderful gender. They'll say that isn't it wonderful that women can identify with characters regardless of gender and men can't do that. Shove it female fans with your elitist feminine attitudes! Men can relate to female characters just as well as women can relate to male characters. Some men can. Some women can't. And your brother, husband, lover, gay male friend, father do not represent all males. Get a larger pool. Men can do romance. Straight men can watch two gay guys screwing on screen with out going all homophobic on people's asses. There are some wonderful anime shows with two guys in a relationship that have male audiences. Your female bashing of men as being uninterested in romance is hurtful to men because it reinforces negative stereotypes.

So stop your discriminating. Stop your talking about our gender without actually asking our opinions or getting us involved in those discussions. Stop putting down our gender in order to put yours up.

You'd think fan fiction writers and slash writers, would know better than to do this but it just isn't so. Learn and stop the playa hating male bashing that exists in too many fan fiction communities. We see you even if we're not saying it!

ETA: Seriously, though, gender stereotyping is wrong. Very true,

revelininsanity. I think I just needed to rant/vent for a while.

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	quettaser 2005-10-11 11:29 pm UTC (link)
	Word. There really aren't enough vocal men in the fanfiction community. Luckily, my main fandom has many active men who are loud about gender equality in fiction and the fandom itself. There's this double-standard beginning to emerge where the women writers are commiting all the sins that men writers did on the shows that drove most of us to fanfiction in the first place. (Reply to this)

	skyler_daemon 2005-10-11 11:29 pm UTC (link)
	May this female appluad you for doing this. I know of a few male writers who can be just as good at writing and dealing with characters of both genders and frankly those type of writers get on my nerves as well. They make my gender look so bad at times. >. (Reply to this)

	sorakh28 2005-10-11 11:31 pm UTC (link)
	Despite being a closet feminist, I applaud you for standing up to your fellow men. I also hate descrimination. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	gal_montag 2005-10-11 11:37 pm UTC (link)
	My question, where are y'all? Speak up, man! I've rarely seen a male fanficcer since I was deep into anime back in the day. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	meliadoul 2005-10-11 11:50 pm UTC (link)
	I didn't realise that some female fic writers discriminate men. If anything a few of them descriminate against woman by turning the females characters into bitches or just killing them off while praising the male characters. (Reply to this)

	Counting down to wank. . . millyfan 2005-10-11 11:56 pm UTC (link)
	5. . .4. . . I've got the boobies, anyone got the popcorn? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	fencer_x 2005-10-12 12:04 am UTC (link)
	There's probably a line by now, but what the heck: Marry me? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	raptorscribe 2005-10-12 12:09 am UTC (link)
	Is this why most people at fan-fic discussion communities assume I'm a girl? (Reply to this)(Thread)