and finally, a TW wank!

[rm]

So there's a bit of a wank going on in the Torchwood community because of an unofficial book that quotes extensively from reviews of episodes fans have posted on LJ. The Author did not seek permission or notify the LJ'ers in question that he would be quoting them.

In addition to the expected discussion on LJ of the legality of this, netiquette, what actually constitutes criticism and the quality of the book itself, the discussion has also ranged quite far off LJ and become colored with some sexism that I find astoundingly unappealing, includng a snarky assertion about how LJ has become a safe space for many women.

Yeah, because that's what TW fandom looks like to me. Buh what?

Seriously, HP had its wanks, but it also was a predominantly female fandom and its dramas had, other than the Lexicon case which was also decided today (and which I will not be addressing) its dramas largely had a very different tone.

Torchwood isn't a predominantly female fandom. Doctor Who _really_ isn't. And this is going to be very interesting -- not just this specific situation, but this first foray into what has been a rather inevitable meeting between different fannish cultures deeply invested in the same media property.

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That's pretty much where I stand. I'm also sick of people who aren't actually doing criticism, but doing other perfectly valid work saying their work is criticism as if that someone makes their bad manners more acceptable.

But mainly I posted this for the sexism wank-storm that followed the initial wank storm

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I'm trying to formulate a longer post about this, and the way it's particularly getting my hackles up in this fandom where 've already experienced some relatively benign sexism -- (because thanks, I cosplay Jack, don't tell me what little girlish companion I'd look cute as).