I feel different. About the part of fandom being "legitimized and acknowledged part of society". Its not that I doubt that, but I am afraid, the general society and mainstream people are not thinking of fandom that is being kept running by women. They still think of fandom as of fanboys, and conventions with weird teenagers or adults in costumes running around. Slash fandom? Will still let people put the label "freak" and whatever on a woman, no matter her age, if she engages in what we do here.
I am slightly younger than you probably, and I have been reading printed gen fanfics since 1992, or when I was thirteen. I spend my pocket money on getting fanzines and comics from US, before there was even the internet and email existed. I akcknowledge, that as a whole, we are slightly better off than 30 or 40 years ago, but nowhere are we being at a place, that would and could put us in the public eye, in comparison to fanboys, or what male fans can afford (male fantasies about two women in porny pieces? totally fine! female fantasies about two men having unrealistic sex? those women should be examined).
I don't want to sound bitter, but we still cannot carry out our hobbies the same as men can. And I talk about able bodies, cis white and cis WOC. how far would society tolerate (generic) you, if you were anything from trans, to lesbian, to asexual, to aromantic or whatever deviations from the norm there is?
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Slash fandom? Will still let people put the label "freak" and whatever on a woman, no matter her age, if she engages in what we do here.
I am slightly younger than you probably, and I have been reading printed gen fanfics since 1992, or when I was thirteen. I spend my pocket money on getting fanzines and comics from US, before there was even the internet and email existed. I akcknowledge, that as a whole, we are slightly better off than 30 or 40 years ago, but nowhere are we being at a place, that would and could put us in the public eye, in comparison to fanboys, or what male fans can afford (male fantasies about two women in porny pieces? totally fine! female fantasies about two men having unrealistic sex? those women should be examined).
I don't want to sound bitter, but we still cannot carry out our hobbies the same as men can. And I talk about able bodies, cis white and cis WOC. how far would society tolerate (generic) you, if you were anything from trans, to lesbian, to asexual, to aromantic or whatever deviations from the norm there is?