Interesting. Thanks for taking the time to type this up.
Yes, this would flirt with opening pandora's box regarding research ethics. That aside:
...many of the victims of fandom bullying who have spoken up on Tumblr and through meta posts on AO3 have self-identified as POC, attesting that the color of their skin has had a direct bearing on their experiences with sexual assault.
A sample size like this proves nothing, of course, but if nothing else we can say that "anti" "discourse" negatively impacts plenty of people who aren't white or American, even if race and nationality are not explicit elements of the flamewars that the Sherlock fandom has suffered from over the past year and a half.
Well, one good thing about a case study is that eventually enough case studies exist for someone to perform a cross-case analysis.
FWIW, it parallels things I have seen and experienced in other fandoms, but only recently -- only over the past 5 or 6 years. A reflection of how polarized the world has become as of late?
Your "fuck the system" vs "fuck you" dichotomy: In the back of my brain I have been chewing on these two paragraphs on and off for hours while going about other things. For the past few years I have had parallel thoughts but my framing, perhaps, comes at the same thing from a different direction. The Internet of Other makes difference visible and, potentially, it makes disunity visible. While some people find this public discussion enlightening (for instance, your experiences while lurk-reading aspie and spoonie posts), other people find this public display of difference as evidence of disunity which, in turn, causes personal discomfort. Reactionary campaigns on tumblr often (at least to me) feel like discomforted people steamrolling the issue by imposing a simple/simplistic broad-brush "solution" for reestablishing equilibrium, comfort, and normative behavior & language. The Internet of Other is saying "are experiences are different" and the Reactionaries are trying to "fix" things to erase the discomfort of difference or to define the rules of behavior such that difference isn't a problem (from their pov). And, from what I have seen, so much of this comes from the Reactionaries deep seated social anxiety when not knowing how to act because they fear offending People of Other or being called out for doing/saying the wrong thing. So, either "solve" the problem by taking control over defining the rules of conduct or "solve the problem by discrediting the Other completely.
At least, this is what I repeatedly see from my seat in the stadium.
Sorry for the long and disjointed response. If you've managed to read this whole mess - thank you!
I read it all, twice. Sometimes a good ramble is what one needs to put thoughts together. :D
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Yes, this would flirt with opening pandora's box regarding research ethics. That aside:
...many of the victims of fandom bullying who have spoken up on Tumblr and through meta posts on AO3 have self-identified as POC, attesting that the color of their skin has had a direct bearing on their experiences with sexual assault.
A sample size like this proves nothing, of course, but if nothing else we can say that "anti" "discourse" negatively impacts plenty of people who aren't white or American, even if race and nationality are not explicit elements of the flamewars that the Sherlock fandom has suffered from over the past year and a half.
Well, one good thing about a case study is that eventually enough case studies exist for someone to perform a cross-case analysis.
FWIW, it parallels things I have seen and experienced in other fandoms, but only recently -- only over the past 5 or 6 years. A reflection of how polarized the world has become as of late?
Your "fuck the system" vs "fuck you" dichotomy: In the back of my brain I have been chewing on these two paragraphs on and off for hours while going about other things. For the past few years I have had parallel thoughts but my framing, perhaps, comes at the same thing from a different direction. The Internet of Other makes difference visible and, potentially, it makes disunity visible. While some people find this public discussion enlightening (for instance, your experiences while lurk-reading aspie and spoonie posts), other people find this public display of difference as evidence of disunity which, in turn, causes personal discomfort. Reactionary campaigns on tumblr often (at least to me) feel like discomforted people steamrolling the issue by imposing a simple/simplistic broad-brush "solution" for reestablishing equilibrium, comfort, and normative behavior & language. The Internet of Other is saying "are experiences are different" and the Reactionaries are trying to "fix" things to erase the discomfort of difference or to define the rules of behavior such that difference isn't a problem (from their pov). And, from what I have seen, so much of this comes from the Reactionaries deep seated social anxiety when not knowing how to act because they fear offending People of Other or being called out for doing/saying the wrong thing. So, either "solve" the problem by taking control over defining the rules of conduct or "solve the problem by discrediting the Other completely.
At least, this is what I repeatedly see from my seat in the stadium.
Sorry for the long and disjointed response. If you've managed to read this whole mess - thank you!
I read it all, twice. Sometimes a good ramble is what one needs to put thoughts together. :D