I think the salt aliens fic broke us and destroyed our ability to write anything that isn't ridiculously long.
I'm a horrible person for liking this new broken-ness, aren't I? :(
...but by making further metafandomy posts about X, along the lines of "remember the slash and homophobic stereotypes issue we were all talking about a couple weeks ago? Well I'm not done talking about it yet, and I think that [insert poster's thoughts on yaoi here]."
This is a good idea! Fandom gets very meta about itself (we seem to have a lot of acafen :o), so derailing about derailing is... very very prevalent, and issues tend to simmer before something makes them explode, so that doesn't.
Individual cases are probably the best, since just saying "general group does X Bad Thing" causes a lot of people to go "but I don't!" and get defensive. It's harder to ignore when looking at specifics. If you do post, I'm sure you'll be very respectful, but I know what you mean about not wanting to risk the dogpile. (feels safe in her little nook)
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I'm a horrible person for liking this new broken-ness, aren't I? :(
...but by making further metafandomy posts about X, along the lines of "remember the slash and homophobic stereotypes issue we were all talking about a couple weeks ago? Well I'm not done talking about it yet, and I think that [insert poster's thoughts on yaoi here]."
This is a good idea! Fandom gets very meta about itself (we seem to have a lot of acafen :o), so derailing about derailing is... very very prevalent, and issues tend to simmer before something makes them explode, so that doesn't.
Individual cases are probably the best, since just saying "general group does X Bad Thing" causes a lot of people to go "but I don't!" and get defensive. It's harder to ignore when looking at specifics. If you do post, I'm sure you'll be very respectful, but I know what you mean about not wanting to risk the dogpile. (feels safe in her little nook)