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Old 09-17-2010, 06:01 PM   #38
Amalthia
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Originally Posted by whitearrow View Post
My username is gender neutral and I'm confused for a man all the time, especially in forums like AVS and flyertalk that are mostly male spaces (less so here, but I'm sure it will happen eventually). It makes me laugh, and if I'm called "he" I will sometimes gently correct, but yes, elfwreck and amalthia are right -- there is a "male" assumption (and a white and a heterosexual assumption for that matter), and therefore there's nothing wrong with women claiming their community and pointing out "hey, we're here." Fanfic *is* a community that's predominantly female -- there's nothing inherently evil in pointing that out. I could be wrong, but I believe the desire to claim women's history in fandom arose from a number of claims that vidding had started in the 90's on YouTube, and by men. (Actually it started in the 70's... with women.)
I'd forgotten about men trying to claim they started vidding first when there had already been a 20 year history of women creating fan vids. I think I can see why women are saying outright and upfront that yes we are women and we are doing this.
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