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cimoreneA nice thing about fandom is that when a new meta debate comes up, the odds are quite good that if I wait a day and a half someone else will say what I wanted to say, and frequently better than I would have. Like this time, fairestcat with I Don't Care About Blair Sandburg's Hair:
The other part that I wanted to post was a point-by-point explication of ableism, which is rampant and rampantly denied by its perpetrators in this debate. It's occurred to me that many seem to be (ironically?) completely blind to this ableism, and that it might help to show an extended metaphor using my daily experiences travelling, shopping, eating, walking, and generally living with my physically disabled wheelchair-bound Dad. However, today is largely set aside for baking; so it may be that I discover, before I have the chance to write this, that someone else has already done so. The odds are good.
I definitely believe that there is value in recurring fandom debates, however they may seem to anyone with a bit of BOFQ under their belt to be nth verse same as the first: they're ongoing negotiations of social norms which both a) serve to inculcate newcomers in the subculture and b) do sometimes make cumulative progress.
fairestcat with I Don't Care About Blair Sandburg's Hair:I particularly don't want to hear about Blair Sandburg's hair (or whatever other past warnings gremlin is being dredged up) as illustration of the dangerous slippery slope that will inevitably result from any attempt to educate fandom on the need to use warnings for common, potentially triggering story elements.
First of all, I can't believe people are sincerely making the slippery slope argument. Really, fandom? Really??
Secondly, so what??? If the price of avoiding causing severe pain to survivors of abuse, assault and self-injury is that I might, at some point in the future, have to fend off some crazy reader who wants me to warn for the color orange, I'm more than happy to pay it.
The other part that I wanted to post was a point-by-point explication of ableism, which is rampant and rampantly denied by its perpetrators in this debate. It's occurred to me that many seem to be (ironically?) completely blind to this ableism, and that it might help to show an extended metaphor using my daily experiences travelling, shopping, eating, walking, and generally living with my physically disabled wheelchair-bound Dad. However, today is largely set aside for baking; so it may be that I discover, before I have the chance to write this, that someone else has already done so. The odds are good.
I definitely believe that there is value in recurring fandom debates, however they may seem to anyone with a bit of BOFQ under their belt to be nth verse same as the first: they're ongoing negotiations of social norms which both a) serve to inculcate newcomers in the subculture and b) do sometimes make cumulative progress.
