[ what the fucking fuck ]

[winterlive]

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?

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!!

Comments

[celtic-tigress.livejournal.com]

Sandy is just in a guest role, right? One episode? Why is everyone being an asshat about it? They show is still about the boys, they have a thing that can't be broken. They have too much on-screen chemistry and fen have been so vocal to Kripke about their plans to smack a bitch if the two new regular girls they have on the docket break that up, that Kripke had to make numerous public assurances that it wasn't going to ruin the dynamic we all love. I mean, I love the boys as much as the next fangirl, but they have to interact with someone sometime or there wouldn't be a story for the show to tell. So what if it is JP's girl, she's a professional, as are the boys, if they can handle it, so can we. If she turns out to do a poor acting job, then I'll complain.

Also, someone mentioned that the fangirls are starting a trend of treating the actresses like shit when they supposedly get in the way of our sekrit love affairs with male actors. I have also noticed this trend (re: Weir-hate and especially Carter-hate in the SG-1/SGA fandoms) and this puzzles me. The fen demographic is overwhelmingly female and dominantly liberal. Shouldn't we be the ones who protest when female characters aren't used to their full potential on-screen and sometimes degraded as mere sex symbols? Ladies, let's get our heads out of our posteriors please. This is an issue that we should be fighting against, not perpetuating!

[winterlive.livejournal.com]

hating the actresses and girlfriends is nothing new, angel, sad to say. but you're right all the same, we must stay conscious of the conditioning put on women in north american society and try to be nice to each other. teach our daughters, y'know? <3