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Oct. 21st, 2008 12:09 pmI'm sneaking in an entry at work - more of a placeholder for my memory than anything else.
I was intrigued by an entry on another (female) fan's journal which mentioned DW fandom being largely dominated by female fans during the 1980s (and early 90s), only to be displaced as the show went on hiatus, the NAs came on to the scene and, now, the new show.
Two reactions, on my part: the first is surprise to hear that DW fandom was (apparently) full of the womenfolk, back in the day. Granted, I was a fairly isolated fan in small-ish town CT and therefore didn't have much way of judging the demographic. The second is a slightly disappointed realization that, yeah, female fans are treated a bit dismissively by their male counterparts - and not just in DW. I wonder why that is? Is it an extension of a juvenile "No Girls Allowed!" attitude towards the hobby, or what? A backlash against the aspects of SF that have been associated with female fans - such as 'shipping, slash and cosplay? Something else?
*looks at her LJ name* Gotta admit, I'm probably not helping the cause, much...
Anyways, I want to noodle more on this - especially if there's a cause for concern amongst the female fans, or are we just looking for issues that don't really exist? (Then again, who's to judge what qualifies as a problematic situation? Probably the male majority...) There's possibly a few things to say about what it means to be a female SF fan - in my observation - but I'm not sure. My observations so far are hardly ground-breaking...
I was intrigued by an entry on another (female) fan's journal which mentioned DW fandom being largely dominated by female fans during the 1980s (and early 90s), only to be displaced as the show went on hiatus, the NAs came on to the scene and, now, the new show.
Two reactions, on my part: the first is surprise to hear that DW fandom was (apparently) full of the womenfolk, back in the day. Granted, I was a fairly isolated fan in small-ish town CT and therefore didn't have much way of judging the demographic. The second is a slightly disappointed realization that, yeah, female fans are treated a bit dismissively by their male counterparts - and not just in DW. I wonder why that is? Is it an extension of a juvenile "No Girls Allowed!" attitude towards the hobby, or what? A backlash against the aspects of SF that have been associated with female fans - such as 'shipping, slash and cosplay? Something else?
*looks at her LJ name* Gotta admit, I'm probably not helping the cause, much...
Anyways, I want to noodle more on this - especially if there's a cause for concern amongst the female fans, or are we just looking for issues that don't really exist? (Then again, who's to judge what qualifies as a problematic situation? Probably the male majority...) There's possibly a few things to say about what it means to be a female SF fan - in my observation - but I'm not sure. My observations so far are hardly ground-breaking...
