So...what, it's okay to write crappy fanfics but calling people on it and doing what is (in most cases) teasing is misogyny?
Also - as far as I can see, most sporking sporks the characters, not the author. A bit of a difference between the two as I see it. If writing Mary-Sues really is empowering women, shouldn't the empowered women be empowered enough to continue empowering themselves without letting others cease their empowering? It's not like we're telling the empowered women to take their shoes off and get back into the kitchen. We're telling the empowered women that their empowering characters are too empowered and need to take a step back, and that having empowered characters who are nonetheless believable is more empowering that empowered characters who aren't believable and are dumb. Oh, and what about the Gary-Stus and the male Mary-Sue writers? I notice we conveniently leave these out. Unless we're meant to believe that women are still empowered by the empowering force of other people writing overly empowered females, which goes completely against what the empowered person above meant. Empowered.
Yeah, that makes sense.
I think this girl needs to get a better perspective on this all.
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Date: 2010-08-15 10:35 pm (UTC)Also - as far as I can see, most sporking sporks the characters, not the author. A bit of a difference between the two as I see it. If writing Mary-Sues really is empowering women, shouldn't the empowered women be empowered enough to continue empowering themselves without letting others cease their empowering? It's not like we're telling the empowered women to take their shoes off and get back into the kitchen. We're telling the empowered women that their empowering characters are too empowered and need to take a step back, and that having empowered characters who are nonetheless believable is more empowering that empowered characters who aren't believable and are dumb. Oh, and what about the Gary-Stus and the male Mary-Sue writers? I notice we conveniently leave these out. Unless we're meant to believe that women are still empowered by the empowering force of other people writing overly empowered females, which goes completely against what the empowered person above meant. Empowered.
Yeah, that makes sense.
I think this girl needs to get a better perspective on this all.