2009-09-03
SurveyFail: The Good Stuff
So if you're a fandom woman like myself, you'll have noticed the big hullabaloo about a certain survey by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ogi_ogas, and the complete wrathful destruction of that survey by better educated, less fuckwitted fandom fen. If you missed it, you can catch up here. It's pretty entertaining reading.
It started out not so entertaining, but here's where it gets awesome: Fandom said NO. Feminists, LBQTI folk, scientists, and those smart enough to know when they're being used, all came together and said "GET THE FUCK OUT."
It kinda warms the cockles of my heart to see something like this so soundly rejected and exposed for the shoddy, lazy, sexist, heteronormative crap that this is. Usually this sort of thing makes newspapers and then people start gabbing about it around coolers at work. "Did you hear about that book about net porn? Women are just SO much more deeper and emotional than men!" Etc, etc, and horrible, limiting, terrible generalisations are absorbed into the communal knowledge of humanity, regardless of the fact that it's complete and utter unsubstantiated dog shit.
And Fandom, beautiful, chaotic, angry, wild Fandom, could not be tamed like a cow and milked. No fucking way.
I've been friending a lot of people since this happened, mainly because they seem like awesome people and we have some fandoms in common. So if I've added you - hey, hi! I like the cut of your jib and would love to have you on my flist. Let's network, and make sure that our community is strong and increasingly awesome. :) If you're wondering who I am, I'm a fan artist and budding novelist, comic book writer/artist and all round fan geek. You can see some of my work at http://napalmnacey.deviantart.com if you're curious.
Sometimes, activism works. And when it does, I am very pleased indeed.
ogi_ogas, and the complete wrathful destruction of that survey by better educated, less fuckwitted fandom fen. If you missed it, you can catch up here. It's pretty entertaining reading.It started out not so entertaining, but here's where it gets awesome: Fandom said NO. Feminists, LBQTI folk, scientists, and those smart enough to know when they're being used, all came together and said "GET THE FUCK OUT."
It kinda warms the cockles of my heart to see something like this so soundly rejected and exposed for the shoddy, lazy, sexist, heteronormative crap that this is. Usually this sort of thing makes newspapers and then people start gabbing about it around coolers at work. "Did you hear about that book about net porn? Women are just SO much more deeper and emotional than men!" Etc, etc, and horrible, limiting, terrible generalisations are absorbed into the communal knowledge of humanity, regardless of the fact that it's complete and utter unsubstantiated dog shit.
And Fandom, beautiful, chaotic, angry, wild Fandom, could not be tamed like a cow and milked. No fucking way.
I've been friending a lot of people since this happened, mainly because they seem like awesome people and we have some fandoms in common. So if I've added you - hey, hi! I like the cut of your jib and would love to have you on my flist. Let's network, and make sure that our community is strong and increasingly awesome. :) If you're wondering who I am, I'm a fan artist and budding novelist, comic book writer/artist and all round fan geek. You can see some of my work at http://napalmnacey.deviantart.com if you're curious.
Sometimes, activism works. And when it does, I am very pleased indeed.