There have always been women in fandom. In fact, I think they are often an indicator of taste.
They are the first to know that the Beatles and Star Trek are good. Zines are created from them after all, as well as the Premise.
However, no matter what women do, men come in and take the credit as if it’s them that made it credible.
It’s obvious that creators like Steven Moffat are often disappointed by their female fans and do whatever it takes to be credible to their male peers. They don’t care that they are alienating female fans by playing with their hearts and crushing them.
I have no clue why women are being hammered against now openly in anime spaces. Female fans have been a thing forever.
Again, why the decrying now when women have always been shipping and creating fanfics and fanart in their own free time?
Fuck, housewives are the reason why Star Trek gotten as big as it did even before the boys came in and took it as their boys' club.
The backbone of so many fandoms is built on the backs of paying female fans with disposable income.
So what if we squeal that was mistaken for hysteria?
Hating everything that women like seems completely justified from the world's perspective. Anything girly has been justified, as seen with the case of Princess Tutu.
Princess Tutu, an underrated series, is praised for all its storytelling, but all the praise seems to ignore that it's girly with the romances and pink.
There is nothing wrong with a series intended for girls and consumed by women.
There's a reason why people begged to give shoujo and josei a chance outside of shouneni and seinen if they even know about it. Just because Shounen Jump is the biggest name out there doesn't mean that other names shouldn't be given a chance.
Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice from her female lens. Mr Darcy is admired not because he's a man who was tall, dark, and handsome, he did the right thing for the sake of doing the right thing, not to win Liz's heart.
Women are allowed to do what is usually done in fandom before this. To say that women are ruining porno just because they are open with their fantasy porn likes is just stupid.
I'll shield them than against someone who say they are ruining things just because of liking fantasy porn.
I don't particularly care for the romantasy as it's called, but I will make this clear: I'd rather have these women have their fun. Just like many things, there is so much trash to go through to get to the gems. There are so many trash animanga that came out that when something becomes popular, it's usually for good reason or not. Sometimes the trash is so bad it's so good.
TikTok is a messy place. There is some truth in badly written romances with all the tropes, but considering it's moreover a woman's hobby that has more backlash.
There is so much generalization of what women like that, therefore, anything they like equals nothing good.
Oh, wow, if this itches men, then about the smut in fanfiction spaces? I read fanfiction porn a lot with a stone face. if me reading porn with a stone face isn't enough, just the fact that women are getting off of fantasy porn is enough for them to say that they are ruining fantasy, never mind that these tropes have been a thing since forever and women are not ruining anything.
Women are allowed to wear things that any character would wear as cosplay. This also puts into the thing that 'women should dress conservatively because wearing sexy means that men are allowed to sexually harass and assault them just for existing' when women wearing perfectly normal clothes have and will continue to allow such horrific things to happen to them.
These characters are written by a man or a team of men, so why blame women for wanting to cosplay these characters when they want to cosplay their faves? The obvious answer is misogyny.
Misogyny means not acknowledging or learning fandom history and the place women have in general from all walks of life, of colors, and sexualities.
Because, of course, fandom is a boys' space, never mind that women are the majority of it.
Fuck, in the pin community I am in right now, there are more women than there are men. Though there are famous male pin collectors in the community, as I can tell from you. One always makes pintography for his pins.
It's obvious that for these men, women shouldn't be involved in fandom because they aren't as conservative as they would like it even though fandom is ultimately a hobby space where people share in their love and joy in something they like.
That's what fandom is all about in the end: sharing in the love of something and having the right to all these things.
No gatekeeping shit.
Avoid what you don't like and don't police others, especially women, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and all the intersectionality there.
Fandom has never been perfect.
I am fully aware that the most popular ships are usually the white characters. Steddie, as much as I love them, gained more of a following than Jonathon and Argyle. Reylo is more popular than Finn x Poe.
And that's just one example of the racism and misogyny in fandoms.
We do not need all this BS.
Fandoms are gaining momentum in the public eye, and being geeky about something isn't something to be bullied about anymore. You can be collecting TCG cards openly, and nobody is batting an eye.
To deny fandom history and how it has now led to all this is just dismaying to witness.
It's really a collision of the conservative values being more openly accepted and forced upon them when so many fought for their rights. They deserve to have a chance even when fascism looms over and destroys everything in their path, in their utter lack of creativity and joy, reveling in their hatred.
