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[mickeym]

Link courtesy of missyjack: Move Over Alpha Geeks, Here Come the Fangrrls

It's a pretty awesome article :)

Comments

[linda3m.livejournal.com]

Positive and accurate. I've been in fandom since dinosaurs ruled the cons. I remember the old boys club it used to be. As with so many things, women found that our needs were not being met by existing product, so we reworked it and made it our own.

I think there are two basic reasons the 'fangrrls' of today don't bare much resemblance to the 'geekboys' of yesterday. First, women are better socialized. Female fandoms are not havens for the socially awkward, but places to escape the responsibilities of being wives, mothers, daughters and co-workers. Places where we can let our hair down and enjoy each other's company.

Second, female fandom is by it's nature, subversive. It takes a certain type of woman to wrestle control away from TPTB and experiment. We control the stories. We control the sexuality.

Thank you for linking to that article!