[ SECRET POST #3315 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3315 ⌋

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Comments

[sparrow_lately]

You know who else I've seen this happen with on tumblr? Famous feminists. I'm not joking. I once saw a many-thousand notes post basically being like "it's appalling that people want to voice their opinion on the movement without having read any of these writers," and proceeded to, among much else, spell bell hooks's name with capitals. Which, like, if the OP had read her they'd presumably know not to do.

Same with politicians. Remember the Hillary idolatry, and now the Bernie is a perfect cinnamon roll...ism?

Not saying that people need to be super educated on X to enter Y discussion or Z fandom, just that tumblr/that culture on the whole blindly idolizes various figures without questioning or even knowing much about them. And it's frustrating.

[(Anonymous)]

Happens a lot in fandom. Didn't we just have a secret like "I just like the fandom and don't bother to check out the original because it's so boring"?

I have done it too and am actually half sorry I checked out the canon eventually. The fandom was so much more liberating.

[(Anonymous)]

Why don't you spell bell hooks's name with capitals?

[(Anonymous)]

bell hooks prefers to write her pen name in lowercase letters, feeling that by spelling he name in all lowercase it places the focus on her work rather than on her as an author.

Granted it's not some huge travesty if you capitalize her name (hooks herself has stated she isn't bothered if people do it) but you're gonna look pretty stupid if you can't get the name of one of the most influential living feminists right.

[sparrow_lately]

Because that's how she personally chooses to style it. She took her name from a relative of hers, and the lowercase spelling is a statement in and of itself. hooks likes to push back against generally unquestioned structures, includingly the seemingly small (though, when one considers the power of language and literacy the ways in which oppressed people have been systematically kept from it, not so small) matters of linguistic prescriptivism.

[elialshadowpine]

Thank you for explaining this. It's something I'd always wondered about, but not enough to actually, y'know, google it. Just, I'd see her name and think "Huh" and move on. So knowing it's an active statement is pretty cool.