Re: Re: My Favorite Murder (Lighthearted)
Dec. 15th, 2021 08:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingSorry, I'm not done yet.
For a good long while, it was my academic project to try to look at popular media created by and for women in a way that didn't take a male gaze for granted. To give an example, many highly respected North American scholars used to insist on seeing Sailor Moon as child pornography for adult men. Which is absurd. So I wrote an article unpacking this sort of discourse and argued that it makes much more practical sense to read Sailor Moon with a female gaze in mind.
I thought I was saying something obvious, but people HATED that I said it. Like, I've had famous scholars come up to me at conferences and tell me that I should be ashamed of myself. Because of the blog posts I wrote while I was thinking through the material for the article, I even became a minor target of Gamergate, of all things.
And then I was pressured to write an entire book on the subject, and... yeah. Don't get me started.
So when I see these incredibly virulent accusations leveled against My Favorite Murder (or the first season of Serial, for that matter), I'm just like, Bro you mad????
For a good long while, it was my academic project to try to look at popular media created by and for women in a way that didn't take a male gaze for granted. To give an example, many highly respected North American scholars used to insist on seeing Sailor Moon as child pornography for adult men. Which is absurd. So I wrote an article unpacking this sort of discourse and argued that it makes much more practical sense to read Sailor Moon with a female gaze in mind.
I thought I was saying something obvious, but people HATED that I said it. Like, I've had famous scholars come up to me at conferences and tell me that I should be ashamed of myself. Because of the blog posts I wrote while I was thinking through the material for the article, I even became a minor target of Gamergate, of all things.
And then I was pressured to write an entire book on the subject, and... yeah. Don't get me started.
So when I see these incredibly virulent accusations leveled against My Favorite Murder (or the first season of Serial, for that matter), I'm just like, Bro you mad????
