Please excuse me butting in - and so long after the original discussion, too. I just wanted to comment on this:
It's just never occurred to me that I should care whether the audience is male or female or whether fellow fans are male or female.
I don't think that's what alixtii is saying. It doesn't really matter whether you care about the audience or not, what matters is that your practice of writing is within and part of the context of a community of fans, which is primarily - or acts/performs as if it were primarily - literate, female and thinking.
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Date: 2007-06-12 04:24 pm (UTC)It's just never occurred to me that I should care whether the audience is male or female or whether fellow fans are male or female.
I don't think that's what