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Seriously. Fannish spaces are dominated and often run by white women and we’re socialized to do things in a very particular way.
This may sound familiar to some people: Don’t toot your own horn or you’re a big prostitute. You have to believe that fandom is strictly a meritocracy and you must support this idea and WAIT for people to recognize your talent. You can’t admit to wanting acknowledgement because that’s greedy and wrong. Anyone who critiques a ‘better’ or wishes in passing to have the same perks as that person is jealous and has to be chastised. Don’t speak out of turn. You have to create for yourself, but not REALLY for yourself, because doing things only for your own enjoyment is greedy and masturbatory, so you have to be generous and create for other people whilst asserting that you’re doing it for the sheer joy of creation, because that’s what True Artists do*, they don’t expect accolades, expecting accolades is greedy and NOT LADYLIKE OH GOD et cetera. This How We Are Supposed To Act, and we expect other people to act this way too because we’re the privileged ones in the space. We view discourse through the lens of this, and expect others to do the same. Everything is either/or. You’re a good girl or you’re not. When people don’t adhere to this model, cue OMG FREAKOUT!!!1!!
( moar! )
This may sound familiar to some people: Don’t toot your own horn or you’re a big prostitute. You have to believe that fandom is strictly a meritocracy and you must support this idea and WAIT for people to recognize your talent. You can’t admit to wanting acknowledgement because that’s greedy and wrong. Anyone who critiques a ‘better’ or wishes in passing to have the same perks as that person is jealous and has to be chastised. Don’t speak out of turn. You have to create for yourself, but not REALLY for yourself, because doing things only for your own enjoyment is greedy and masturbatory, so you have to be generous and create for other people whilst asserting that you’re doing it for the sheer joy of creation, because that’s what True Artists do*, they don’t expect accolades, expecting accolades is greedy and NOT LADYLIKE OH GOD et cetera. This How We Are Supposed To Act, and we expect other people to act this way too because we’re the privileged ones in the space. We view discourse through the lens of this, and expect others to do the same. Everything is either/or. You’re a good girl or you’re not. When people don’t adhere to this model, cue OMG FREAKOUT!!!1!!
( moar! )