This time with Highly Educated Anthropological Analysis. From Isabelle, whom I befriended at WWChicago, and got quoted heavily. (See if you can guess which one’s me. Like it ain’t obvious.)
season of the bitch
sex. politics. rock’n'roll. film. comics. lipgloss. monsters.
Great stuff - thanks for calling attention to it! Despite it being about a different fandom than the one I know best (mine is old-school literary-centred SF/F cons, which are IME more like 60% male, 40% female if not even closer to even), I was still feeling, “yes, this is fandom/geekdom as I know it.” I’ve been irritated a lot lately by descriptions of what it’s like to be female in geekdom that are so different from my own experiences that they might as well be describing, I dunno, women in baseball or boardrooms.
Each woman’s experiences are her own, but I have to wonder, with some of the writing I’ve seen, how much the woman brought her own assumptions/expectations with her. On the other side of the same coin, I think what irritates me most is the implication - or too often, explication - that what’s being written isn’t just that woman’s experience, but “this is what all women in fandom go through.”
Sunflower