If it's any comfort, there are men in fandom who aren't anything like the people running FanLib. I absolutely agree! And it is a comfort, seriously, because we have some great guys in the Buffyverse fandom alone, not to mention other fans in other fandoms I've run into.
I just think these particular guys are a bunch of men who have never so much as dipped their toes into fanfiction-fandom, and had no clue that it would consist mostly of women, or how to talk to that demographic without sounding patronizing. I think also that because they thought it was mostly women, they were the sorts of guys who assumed they could come in and start structuring, and ...um...we'd just jump up and follow along? Be their cheerleaders? Work for free?
I don't think they were expecting anyone to be skeptical or ask serious questions or have a reasoned reaction against it. And their reactions to some of those reasoned responses have been a little angry, on the order of "Can't you all see what we're doing for you?" O_o.
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I absolutely agree! And it is a comfort, seriously, because we have some great guys in the Buffyverse fandom alone, not to mention other fans in other fandoms I've run into.
I just think these particular guys are a bunch of men who have never so much as dipped their toes into fanfiction-fandom, and had no clue that it would consist mostly of women, or how to talk to that demographic without sounding patronizing. I think also that because they thought it was mostly women, they were the sorts of guys who assumed they could come in and start structuring, and ...um...we'd just jump up and follow along? Be their cheerleaders? Work for free?
I don't think they were expecting anyone to be skeptical or ask serious questions or have a reasoned reaction against it. And their reactions to some of those reasoned responses have been a little angry, on the order of "Can't you all see what we're doing for you?" O_o.