[ SECRET POST #343 ]

[degrees.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #343 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

If I may direct your attention to this poll → HERE

EDIT: I removed a few secrets because it was just brought to my attention (I have a crappy memory) that people are being banned for being flagged for this kind of stuff. SORRY. D:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #049.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, [ 1 2 ] not!secrets, 0 not!fandom [ 1 ] secret revisted/link to fanfiction.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Saturday, December 15th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here CLOSED.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: 14

[relmneiko.livejournal.com]

Girls and women have always had been encouraged to cultivate their creative side, while boys and men are generally discouraged, unless they can make money or fame from it.

You know what that made me think of? The classical music scene (especially violin, though this holds true for most instruments). You take a class, any class from elementary level to the the most advanced, and the vast majority of students will be female. At major competitions, it's still mostly female, and in major orchestras it's still mostly female (though there tend to be more men in professional orchestras than on the amateur level, and I suppose I don't even have to say that a guy is more likely to play trumpet and a girl is more likely to play flute *eyeroll*.) I wouldn't be able to say definitively when it comes to solo performers/quartets and such, but I would hazard that the ratio is a bit closer to 50:50 there. Major choirs tend to try and and go for balance for obvious reasons. The conductor, on the other hand? Almost always a dude. Go figure.

Anyway, my point... the reason I think orchestras maintain the female majority even on a professional level is because as a musician but especially in increasingly larger ensembles, teamwork, communication and all that jazz are half the battle. Soloistic and conducting roles where you're basically the star and everyone has to follow you fall in line with a more traditionally 'male' role.

Relating that to fandom - recently on f_s (was it on this post? Damn I'm losing track) someone posted a secret expressing their dislike of livejournal, and how they would have preferred fic be posted on an anonymous, 4chan-style message board. There were a few agreements and a few 'cry moars', but it got me thinking about fandom. I might be stating the obvious here, but an anon fic board, if it ever even happens, will never take off. The fic and the art and everything else are so heavily tied into the community. No matter if you hate the wank or the BNFs or the latest crap that livejournal throws at fandom, you've got to admit that the community is what makes a lot of - maybe even most - people stay in fandom.

I knew a guy in highschool who was really into writing. In fact, he was writing an original novel. Now, I never got to see it the jerk because he only showed it to a few friends, and by now he probably thinks, 'gah! I can't believe I wrote that!' And of course since he was a pretentious asshole he thought fanfiction was useless beyond writing exercise. - but the fact is that he was really into writing and he wasn't the only guy I knew at the time who was. The ratio of guys:girls in a couple of my highschool English classes who actually enjoyed writing was pretty even.

But I could never to what he did - sit down and start writing a novel and just show it to a couple people like a private thing. I write fanfic and I display it on the internet for anyone who bothers to click the summary, gathering ideas from reviewers (haha, when lucky) and things like prompts and challenges and interpretations of characters by other authors.

Anyway. Rambling. Point. Yes, the point. Fandom is about the community. ...partly, at least. I could have said that in so fewer words, couldn't I?

...And I basically agree with everything you've said, so I'll stop before I melt my brain or anyone else's.