No, I got a lot out of that treatise. (and it wasn't such a great idea for me to post such a cool topic and then not be able to respond on LJ for over a day...)
What really connected in what you say is that it reminded me of two recent wanks against the evil, nasty plagiarism that is fanfic that recently crawled out from under a rock. Both were started by men and echoed by a Greek chorus of me-too boys. And it just frosted me. Your quotes made me realize why - I see it as another attempt by men to demean women and their 'hobbies'.
Well, and the topper for one of the wanks was to back off of the initial challenge that fanfic writing was theft, only to settle on the diatribe that it was written by and for pedophiles. Grrrr.
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Date: 2005-05-07 09:18 pm (UTC)What really connected in what you say is that it reminded me of two recent wanks against the evil, nasty plagiarism that is fanfic that recently crawled out from under a rock. Both were started by men and echoed by a Greek chorus of me-too boys. And it just frosted me. Your quotes made me realize why - I see it as another attempt by men to demean women and their 'hobbies'.
Well, and the topper for one of the wanks was to back off of the initial challenge that fanfic writing was theft, only to settle on the diatribe that it was written by and for pedophiles. Grrrr.