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winterlive) wrote2007-10-02 07:11 pm
winterlive) wrote2007-10-02 07:11 pm
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[ what the fucking fuck ]
so sandy mccoy, jared's girlfriend, is going to be on the show.1
i'm told that makes a lot of people very happy. as it ought! i'm told that it makes even more people completely indifferent. as it ought for them, too.
and then, i'm told it makes some people very upset because the show is, apparently, JARED AND JENSEN'S. and not sandy's. apparently, her costume is slutty. apparently, having the girlfriend on set makes it harder to keep her in a seperate mental block from the holy sanctum of the sacred jsquared. apparently, the fact that she has sex makes her unclean or incapable of doing her job as an actress.
because fandom has been using and abusing this term like nobody's business lately, let me PSA for the masses, okay?
seriously, girls. let's try to be slighly less catty bitches, okay? let's have a nice threesome and call it a night.
ETA: just for the record, there are oodles of people out there who are over the moon happy about this. they're probably writing fic already. go them! i belong to what is surely the largest camp: people who don't much care one way or the other. and if the objection here were that people were arguing sandy was a crappy actress, well that i couldn't find fault with. i might agree or disagree with that opinion, but at least it's based on merit and not tits.
1. and just so you know, i got spoiled for this purely by accident and if any of you further spoil me there will be hell to pay. <3!!
i'm told that makes a lot of people very happy. as it ought! i'm told that it makes even more people completely indifferent. as it ought for them, too.
and then, i'm told it makes some people very upset because the show is, apparently, JARED AND JENSEN'S. and not sandy's. apparently, her costume is slutty. apparently, having the girlfriend on set makes it harder to keep her in a seperate mental block from the holy sanctum of the sacred jsquared. apparently, the fact that she has sex makes her unclean or incapable of doing her job as an actress.
because fandom has been using and abusing this term like nobody's business lately, let me PSA for the masses, okay?
tin·hat
Pronunciation: 'tin 'hat
Function: noun
Etymology: Sci-fi, from hat made of aluminum foil so as to keep the alien space rays from getting into your head.
1: Batshit insane.
2: Very gullible; given to believe any sort of ridiculous justification or story which might "prove" that a particular pairing either is happening or might happen.
The term was originally came into the fandom lexicon to define a particular sort of LotRiPS fan who was convinced that, because they allegedly had a series of secret signals such as tying shoes at particular times or wearing particular colors to events, Elijah Wood and Dominic Monahan were clearly dating. The secret signals were designed to communicate availability, positional preference, etc. I would love to tell you I was kidding with regard to this matter but I am not; people actually believed this.
seriously, girls. let's try to be slighly less catty bitches, okay? let's have a nice threesome and call it a night.
ETA: just for the record, there are oodles of people out there who are over the moon happy about this. they're probably writing fic already. go them! i belong to what is surely the largest camp: people who don't much care one way or the other. and if the objection here were that people were arguing sandy was a crappy actress, well that i couldn't find fault with. i might agree or disagree with that opinion, but at least it's based on merit and not tits.
1. and just so you know, i got spoiled for this purely by accident and if any of you further spoil me there will be hell to pay. <3!!
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I'm having a really hard time with the way many fandoms treat/talk about women. And I'm trying hard to figure out whether it's just particular fandoms, or whether it's a development across the board in recent years. I'm seeing things in the SPN and Smallville fandoms that are deeply discouraging to my liberal, feminist heart... it's just so bad in comparison to the Farscape fandom, when Ben Browder's wife would periodically turn up in guest roles, and the fans were always positively delighted to see her. Whenever there was a con appearance, someone was certain to ask, "Hey, when's Fran coming back? Can't you make her a regular or something?"
Again, I'm not sure whether it's a particular fandom thing, or whether it's a societal sea change. And I really hope that it's just particular fandoms, although on my more depressed, "What the hell is wrong with people???" days, I think it's part of a larger pattern of backlash against women.
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I wanted to comment, because you raise a question that I myself have been considering of late. I'm beginning to think that this kind of behavior and asstinhattery is related to the homo-normative fandoms, where slash is the predominant genre. In het-normative fandoms, you get asshattery, it's true, but you don't see as many tinhats. I have more thoughts, but that's the gist.