I like it when people anticipate my thoughts

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I saw a link posted for The Men's Ficathon, and I was all ready to post a rant (using one of my WTF icons naturally, lol) asking why on earth someone would think we needed a men-only ficathon. It's not like men aren't already the overwhelming focus of fic in just about every fandom or anything. :\ But then it turns out other people beat me to it. Good job, other people!

Comments

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Ha! I was gonna do the same thing! But I like it when other people let me be lazy. I can't wait to read it!

[lostboy-lj.livejournal.com]

Lame, thumbs down, boo. Men are people too, E.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

On the one hand, I suppose it's okay for them to have a ficathon of whatever they want. On the other hand, statistically speaking, I would say that fanfic is male dominated already. I mean, take a look at the Supernatural fandom as an example. It's nearly exclusively male already. Having male-only fic is practically redundant.

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

My initial reaction was much like yours; WTF? From reading the creator's LJ, she didn't have any particular political motive, just "I like men, I want to read fic about men!" Which, fair enough, but like you say isn't there quite a lot of that already out there? Do writers need special encouragement to post it?

Especially since from what I can see of the prompts, they're mostly bog-standard ones with M/F and M/M pairings and single characters , like you'd find just about anywhere... I mean, they could at least have made a Men's Ficathon specifically about, I dunno, deconstructing masculinity or talking about what it's like to be male in a changing world, or something...

[rahirah]

I just don't get how someone could exist in fandom for the last five years and be so surprised that people found this problematic...

[quinara]

I saw that and was like o.O... I thought I had to be missing something!

(Love your icon!!!)

[gabrielleabelle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw that. I was just...boggling. Cause...dude.

Especially as it seems to be a reaction to the all women ficathon. "Well if the chicks get a ficathon, then the menz must feel left out! Oh noes!"

It's like making a White History Month in reaction to Black History Month. Kinda stupid.