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Jun. 28th, 2005 06:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatUgh, 7:30. Damn. Must eat. Must work on novel. Did not mean to spend four hours on the net. But my system is slow.
Well...apparently I touched a button in those last two posts, people I'd never seen before came out of the woodwork. Where are you people when I do movie or book reviews? What is it about B/S that touches nerves online? You post on it and whammo! Every single time. A friend of mine once commented that BTVS fans are a contentious bunch. Yep. The whole fandom thing continues to unnerve me. (Should state here - only been in one fandom in my entire life.) On the plus side? If it weren't for the BTVS fandom - I would not have met people who share my interests in fantasy, sci-fi, gothic, horror, and cult tv shows, movies, graphic novels, anime, and books.
What's interesting - if you read the comments, is we aren't really talking about the BTVS show at all, so much as how women are portrayed in the romance genre and what effect if any that has on their roles in life? Why do I have gender issues, you ask? Well, I'm a woman, single, trying to make a living in NYC at the turn of the 21st century during a very conservative time in our history - where the greatest American was voted as Ronald Regan on a TV show. The top five? Men. Conservative men. And have experienced misogyny first hand.
Each day I'm assaulted by information on how I'm supposed to behave, who I'm supposed to become. And much of it from women. That in of itself, is disturbing.
Got home early today. Need to work on novel, but was so hot couldn't think.
Outside feels like a sauna.
Well...apparently I touched a button in those last two posts, people I'd never seen before came out of the woodwork. Where are you people when I do movie or book reviews? What is it about B/S that touches nerves online? You post on it and whammo! Every single time. A friend of mine once commented that BTVS fans are a contentious bunch. Yep. The whole fandom thing continues to unnerve me. (Should state here - only been in one fandom in my entire life.) On the plus side? If it weren't for the BTVS fandom - I would not have met people who share my interests in fantasy, sci-fi, gothic, horror, and cult tv shows, movies, graphic novels, anime, and books.
What's interesting - if you read the comments, is we aren't really talking about the BTVS show at all, so much as how women are portrayed in the romance genre and what effect if any that has on their roles in life? Why do I have gender issues, you ask? Well, I'm a woman, single, trying to make a living in NYC at the turn of the 21st century during a very conservative time in our history - where the greatest American was voted as Ronald Regan on a TV show. The top five? Men. Conservative men. And have experienced misogyny first hand.
Each day I'm assaulted by information on how I'm supposed to behave, who I'm supposed to become. And much of it from women. That in of itself, is disturbing.
Got home early today. Need to work on novel, but was so hot couldn't think.
Outside feels like a sauna.