conservative Christians are by their nature the kind of people who are likely to object to any organization which defends civil liberties
I'm not so sure. If they're the type of evangelical who acts like they want to set up a theocracy, then maybe. But I think the concservative Christian movement (in America) is more diverse than that, and there would be plenty of need to defend civil liberties, if not perhaps with the ACLU's exact emphases (gay/lesbian rights wouldn' be high on the list). And certainly neocons and libertarians and other types of conservatives might also see the importance of an organization which defends civil liberities. Indeed, they do, and there are such conservatives actively supporting the ACLU, even if they don't fit in with the percieved liberal mindset of the organization, or its conception of the role of big government, or its method of constitutional interpretation, or whatever.
Have some parts of the organisation be of type (1) (like the legal defense part) with others just of type 2 (like the archive). Make this distinction clear.
I would think the Archive as well would be of type 1; anyone can use it regardless of gender, and once vids are allowed, I think it would be an administrative nightmare to disallow machinima. Obviously parodies couldn't be forbidden either, as female fen write them too, if not as much a significant part of their output. The wiki and the journal might lean more towards #2, since it is that history/culture they are documenting; but I get the sense, from the people involved, that the journal at least would more than happily publish an essay on machinima (as Kristina and Karen do in their book), and is, after all, called Transformative Works and Cultures, with culture plural. The makeup of the Board will of course depend on who gets elected in by dues-paying members, but to play Nostradamus I do not see the makeup changing considerably.
In other words, I expect the female meta/fanfiction community to remain at the center of the org, but for it to be open and welcoming to everybody, and to serve everybody.
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Date: 2008-01-13 01:05 pm (UTC)I'm not so sure. If they're the type of evangelical who acts like they want to set up a theocracy, then maybe. But I think the concservative Christian movement (in America) is more diverse than that, and there would be plenty of need to defend civil liberties, if not perhaps with the ACLU's exact emphases (gay/lesbian rights wouldn' be high on the list). And certainly neocons and libertarians and other types of conservatives might also see the importance of an organization which defends civil liberities. Indeed, they do, and there are such conservatives actively supporting the ACLU, even if they don't fit in with the percieved liberal mindset of the organization, or its conception of the role of big government, or its method of constitutional interpretation, or whatever.
Have some parts of the organisation be of type (1) (like the legal defense part) with others just of type 2 (like the archive). Make this distinction clear.
I would think the Archive as well would be of type 1; anyone can use it regardless of gender, and once vids are allowed, I think it would be an administrative nightmare to disallow machinima. Obviously parodies couldn't be forbidden either, as female fen write them too, if not as much a significant part of their output. The wiki and the journal might lean more towards #2, since it is that history/culture they are documenting; but I get the sense, from the people involved, that the journal at least would more than happily publish an essay on machinima (as Kristina and Karen do in their book), and is, after all, called Transformative Works and Cultures, with culture plural. The makeup of the Board will of course depend on who gets elected in by dues-paying members, but to play Nostradamus I do not see the makeup changing considerably.
In other words, I expect the female meta/fanfiction community to remain at the center of the org, but for it to be open and welcoming to everybody, and to serve everybody.