Im not sure that its accurate to call gender "hidden" online- people almost always assume. And if they assume wrong, the individual may be the one blamed for "deliberately misleading" (or sock puppetry for attention). rather than being hidden (which would be very freeing), imho, it seems to be more comparable to being closeted or not, passing or not passing etc(which is more constraining to me).
But ultimately one gets judged on what one does and believes, not primarily on their gender
I'm not sure how to judge the degree to which such things happen in fandom- when I first found and got interested in meta discussions I encountered this alot- is it because this was a minority that was "loud" or is it that common? I've learned to avoid most of these people/places and stick to my own corner mostly- but how representative is that (likely not very). But comments like "You not a woman, you won't understand [slash subject]", "I'd never read/listen-to a slash fic if I knew it was by a guy", "men can't write slash, they write gay fic" etc are placing gender first, before the individual can even act to be judged.
"Formal interlocutors" means the people paired up for debates, or the people discussing in the threads?
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Date: 2007-06-22 07:51 pm (UTC)But ultimately one gets judged on what one does and believes, not primarily on their gender
I'm not sure how to judge the degree to which such things happen in fandom- when I first found and got interested in meta discussions I encountered this alot- is it because this was a minority that was "loud" or is it that common? I've learned to avoid most of these people/places and stick to my own corner mostly- but how representative is that (likely not very). But comments like "You not a woman, you won't understand [slash subject]", "I'd never read/listen-to a slash fic if I knew it was by a guy", "men can't write slash, they write gay fic" etc are placing gender first, before the individual can even act to be judged.
"Formal interlocutors" means the people paired up for debates, or the people discussing in the threads?