ext_41827 ([identity profile] giddy-london.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] harborshore 2010-10-01 01:58 pm (UTC)

What I find interesting (and by interesting I mean infuriating) is that not only do fans judge women like Z or Lyn-Z or Vicky-T more harshly than their male counterparts, but fans judge other female fans more harshly than the dudes in the bands with regard to faily language. The same fans who jump all over other fans for using racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic language are the very same people who willfully ignore the same language when used by someone like Frank or Gerard. So do a penis and privilege give these guys a pass, or is problematic language okay because then the fans are "just compartmentalizing"? Either way, it's bullshit, and so much of the reason I was and continue to be frustrated with this fandom.

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