people spreading rumors of guys on LJ who were "really women."
Oof, that’s ugly. :( Definitely puts the rose-tinted memories into perspective.
I guess one big strength of the tumblr/twitter ecosystem coming to dominate is that it kind of forcibly blasted us out of the clique-based fandom social structure that was so cushy for unexamined bigotry. I know a lot of important social justice conversations were happening on lj, but without things like the reblog/retweet function, they just didn’t have the same reach. (Despite being active there during the relevant period, I never even heard of Racefail until years later - on tumblr.) I have gripes ranging from petty to major with some of the new mass social media-based fandom norms, but it’s definitely done a lot of good in terms of handing the mic to marginalised people.
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Oof, that’s ugly. :( Definitely puts the rose-tinted memories into perspective.
I guess one big strength of the tumblr/twitter ecosystem coming to dominate is that it kind of forcibly blasted us out of the clique-based fandom social structure that was so cushy for unexamined bigotry. I know a lot of important social justice conversations were happening on lj, but without things like the reblog/retweet function, they just didn’t have the same reach. (Despite being active there during the relevant period, I never even heard of Racefail until years later - on tumblr.) I have gripes ranging from petty to major with some of the new mass social media-based fandom norms, but it’s definitely done a lot of good in terms of handing the mic to marginalised people.