I can't go to US cons, for obvious reasons. But I've been to a couple of swedish anime conventions and we don't have panels. About anything really.
Then I read a timeplan for a couple of US cons (to figure out what to do on our own con hehe) and it's filled with panels. About making cosplay wigs, about mechas, about fanfics, about characters and archetypes etc etc. And I think anime fandom as a whole is pretty gender-balanced
Otoh I know I read on fandom_wank about an argument involving yaoi fanart. A guy complains that there's less busty babes and more guy/guy all the time. Several artists state that it's because fanboys look but fangirls buy.
So I don't think it's as simple as she makes it out to be. And what irks me is that she does not ponder it, she does not investigate (which isn't scope of the article either) she just turns things around a bit until she finds an angle that matches her gender stereotypes and bingo, let's present that as a fact.
Here, one example:
It's the first time that women have ever dominated fandom in this way, and so of course it's all about doing extra homework and making sure your uniform is nicely pressed.
Is she somehow implying that the sci-fi nerds who have encyclopedical knowledge of anti-matter theory as propsed by author A, or can ramble specs for the Enterprise for hours have "not done their homework"? Is it different because the people at Lumos have focused on other things? I mean, being obsessed and discussing everything to death is part of being both a fan and a nerd yet she turns it into "girls doing their homework". Blah
Re: Reposted because I screwed up the first time
Then I read a timeplan for a couple of US cons (to figure out what to do on our own con hehe) and it's filled with panels. About making cosplay wigs, about mechas, about fanfics, about characters and archetypes etc etc. And I think anime fandom as a whole is pretty gender-balanced
Otoh I know I read on fandom_wank about an argument involving yaoi fanart. A guy complains that there's less busty babes and more guy/guy all the time. Several artists state that it's because fanboys look but fangirls buy.
So I don't think it's as simple as she makes it out to be. And what irks me is that she does not ponder it, she does not investigate (which isn't scope of the article either) she just turns things around a bit until she finds an angle that matches her gender stereotypes and bingo, let's present that as a fact.
Here, one example:
It's the first time that women have ever dominated fandom in this way, and so of course it's all about doing extra homework and making sure your uniform is nicely pressed.
Is she somehow implying that the sci-fi nerds who have encyclopedical knowledge of anti-matter theory as propsed by author A, or can ramble specs for the Enterprise for hours have "not done their homework"? Is it different because the people at Lumos have focused on other things? I mean, being obsessed and discussing everything to death is part of being both a fan and a nerd yet she turns it into "girls doing their homework". Blah