I love fandom so. I'd forgotten.

I barely touch fandom anymore, and metafandom even less. But my brains were eaten by the sheer screaming intelligence of the first couple of women I read responding to SurveyFail. And then many, many posts later I read this, and realized, yeah. I do. Every single one of you I ever met or read or slept on or waved at, for being who you are so very hard.

http://pandarus.livejournal.com/310491.html

I know everything imaginable has been said by people much more articulate than I am, but since my entire contribution so far has been "Bwahaha" I have to just say here:

A) Oh Ogi no

B) Nothing I've ever written, fanish or otherwise, exists. Woe. (Equality in sexual relationships apparently belonging only to unicorns.)

(emphasis mine)

37. If you read slash, do you identify with the characters while you're reading?

I don't read slash.
I don't identify with either character.
I tend to identify with the dominant character.
I tend to identify with the submissive character.
I tend to identify with the character whose point-of-view the story is written in.
I tend to identify with both characters.
I don't know.
I tend to identify with a specific character I like, in any position.


O.o How did they even get started to begin with? It reminds me of a couple of redneck Cullmanites thinking they were making a polite joke in asking (talking about a child custody decision recommendation, now) "Is he the buck, at least?" "No, honey, he's the doe. You'll know when you see him."

Binary gender dominance submission assumptions FAIL LIKE WOAH.