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I try not to talk about this stuff on main v much anymore besides occasional clowning on weirdos but like. people who spend all their time crying about evil "fandom police" are interesting bc theyre also v much policing fandom and gatekeeping what kind of Discourse is acceptable
bro you& #39;re still constructing and enforcing norms and punishing people who don& #39;t conform to those norms bro. it& #39;s all policing, babey
by policing what kinds of criticisms fans are allowed to make you& #39;re ultimately policing how people are allowed to engage with fandom, transformative works, and the source content. You& #39;re creating rules for who is or isn& #39;t allowed to be fannish and then enforcing those rules
I& #39;m sorry but fandom isn& #39;t just your little circle jerk bubble of friends mourning the good old livejournal days. We& #39;re all members of transformative Fandom and you& #39;re going to have to accept that. Never mind that the kind of discourse y& #39;all shut out isn& #39;t a recent invention
The "problematic" fandom content debate we& #39;ve been hashing out on social media for the last two years has been a point of contention and debate since at least the 90s. Here& #39;s some commentary from lesbians fed up with straight women fic writers who fetishize gay men (1/3)
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Source is "Theorizing Fandom: Fans, Subculture and Identity", one of the seminal collections of articles in fandom studies
LGBT people/poc/etc finding your work problematic or choosing to analyze transformative works through a wider political lens isnt some grand, recent terf/Puritan/Republican/kids-these-days conspiracy. Sometimes other fans just disagree with you, man. As they have done for decades
