Comment Meta

[amaresu]

Femslash Mini Meta fest was an utter fail this year. And I'm still not in a place where I could do it, so I purpose Comment Meta. And let's have it cover all things female and fannish. However you define those.

How it works

1. Post a meta topic in a top level comment. Use the subject line for the meta subject and expand as you want in the body of the comment. Or don't.

2. Repeat Step 1 for as many meta ideas as you have.

3. Comment on other meta topics.


It's kinda like a kink meme, only with meta. Feel free to browse the mini meta tag for ideas.

This is meant to be about as low pressure as it comes. Feel free to write on your own journal/Tumblr/blog and link back here. Respond with as little or as much as you want. This post will remain open indefinitely, so please track it if that makes things easier for you.

Comments

Re: Mixed Messages in "The Fall"?

[antisoppist]

I haven't seen The Fall yet but I was just reading this article by the writer about his thinking behind it, where he says his aim was to make the women real people rather than anonymous victims. Obviously I have no idea whether he succeeded or not and it sounds like a tricky balancing act between humanising them and eroticising them but I was slightly encouraged by the fact that he was at least thinking about it.

Re: Mixed Messages in "The Fall"?

[kmo]

thanks for sharing that link. that does help me see a little bit better where the writer was coming from. and i had no idea he had worked on Prime Suspect- that does give him some street cred in my book. ;) i get that he is trying to avoid the sort of anonymous female victim that crops up in a lot of cop shows like Prime Suspect or Law & Order SVU. and i appreciate that he understands the smaller aggressions men perpetuate against women (creepshot fotos, obscene phone calls). but for me, personally, actually depicting that sexualized killing didn't really work. and i guess i disagree with his point about male victims. it's not that it would be more "palatable" if the victims were men, but as discussed in the thread about "Top of the Lake," men are rarely shown to be victims of sexualized violence in fiction. though i suppose if it was a male killer targeting men, then you'd fall into that whole set of problematic tropes about gay men as sexual predators.