Well, I’m black and profoundly rural and only college-educated, so I guess I’m actually allowed to have an opinion here. Neat!
When I was a kid, I had a giant throbbing crush on Lt. Commander Data, and so I read lots of TNG tie-in novels and totally realized they were kind of awful and didn’t care. I have never read any others, before or since. (Canon is more than I can take in most instances, and so I retreat into the palliative refuge of fandom in order to allow my sensitive eyeballs time to repair themselves.)
I assume this woman is talking about the SGA fandom being so cruel and, like, narrow-mindedly sex-obsessed? Which, honestly, baffles the pants off of me. While I do agree that community-wide fandom criticism/discussions can sometimes turn into Random Issuegate for no reason (or else we wouldn’t have all those dedicated wank comms), the SGA fandom is possibly the most inclusive, welcoming place on the internets. I don’t like SGA very much — partially because I am not much fonder of cynical fake homoeroticism when it appears in domestic products than when it shows up in imports — but I’ve read gazillions of SGA fanfic, and I can tell this person definitively that she has no idea what she’s talking about. The SGA fandom is one of the only places where genderswitch and complicated!kidfic edge into the slash mainstream. There are all kinds of amazing examples of fan-writers who use SGA as a way to address important social issues like DADT, gay adoption, and even stuff like the casual cost of ordinary white/Western/human xenophobia. The pointlessness of war! The human price of technocratic social hierarchies! I read an AU fic a few months ago in which Rodney McKay was cast as an autistic violin genius, which dealt sensitively and (as far as I know) realistically with the problems he faced as a performer and a person. I read another really great SGA fanfic once in which Sheppard was transformed into an ex-Air Force transgendered woman — it made me cry! Some of the best short stories I’ve ever read, ever, have been SGA fic, and I say that with a face so straight you could use it to plumb corners. (That’s a rural-person reference to carpentry, for credibility’s sake.)
On the other hand, I had no idea I’d been blogging alongside a bunch of hard-hearted Marxist white-lady professors for the last ten years. Awesome!
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Date: 2010-09-21 06:59 (UTC)When I was a kid, I had a giant throbbing crush on Lt. Commander Data, and so I read lots of TNG tie-in novels and totally realized they were kind of awful and didn’t care. I have never read any others, before or since. (Canon is more than I can take in most instances, and so I retreat into the palliative refuge of fandom in order to allow my sensitive eyeballs time to repair themselves.)
I assume this woman is talking about the SGA fandom being so cruel and, like, narrow-mindedly sex-obsessed? Which, honestly, baffles the pants off of me. While I do agree that community-wide fandom criticism/discussions can sometimes turn into Random Issuegate for no reason (or else we wouldn’t have all those dedicated wank comms), the SGA fandom is possibly the most inclusive, welcoming place on the internets. I don’t like SGA very much — partially because I am not much fonder of cynical fake homoeroticism when it appears in domestic products than when it shows up in imports — but I’ve read gazillions of SGA fanfic, and I can tell this person definitively that she has no idea what she’s talking about. The SGA fandom is one of the only places where genderswitch and complicated!kidfic edge into the slash mainstream. There are all kinds of amazing examples of fan-writers who use SGA as a way to address important social issues like DADT, gay adoption, and even stuff like the casual cost of ordinary white/Western/human xenophobia. The pointlessness of war! The human price of technocratic social hierarchies! I read an AU fic a few months ago in which Rodney McKay was cast as an autistic violin genius, which dealt sensitively and (as far as I know) realistically with the problems he faced as a performer and a person. I read another really great SGA fanfic once in which Sheppard was transformed into an ex-Air Force transgendered woman — it made me cry! Some of the best short stories I’ve ever read, ever, have been SGA fic, and I say that with a face so straight you could use it to plumb corners. (That’s a rural-person reference to carpentry, for credibility’s sake.)
On the other hand, I had no idea I’d been blogging alongside a bunch of hard-hearted Marxist white-lady professors for the last ten years. Awesome!