my thoughts on yaoi
12 Jan 2008 08:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The OTW :
I support it. I think it's kickass and the right way to handle the issue. It's proactive in giving us some tools to fight against the way mainstream society does and will opress/marginalize/hinder fandom and way better than the ostrich strategy. Some of the criticisms against it are fair, of course, but I think the potential good totally outweight the bad sides.
On the other hand, all the meta about the OTW is BORING AS HELL. Seriously, can we get back to some interesting meta, now*? I miss when reading
metafandom was fun :(
* okay, you can have some OTW meta too, just try to have some other kinds of (fun!) meta as well
I support it. I think it's kickass and the right way to handle the issue. It's proactive in giving us some tools to fight against the way mainstream society does and will opress/marginalize/hinder fandom and way better than the ostrich strategy. Some of the criticisms against it are fair, of course, but I think the potential good totally outweight the bad sides.
On the other hand, all the meta about the OTW is BORING AS HELL. Seriously, can we get back to some interesting meta, now*? I miss when reading
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* okay, you can have some OTW meta too, just try to have some other kinds of (fun!) meta as well
Re: Ah. Thanks.
Date: 12 January 2008 11:47 pm (UTC)And the answer is : The word "transformative" is used in their name to make a legal point. It's meant to be fannish people explanating things slowly and in big, impressive word to mainstream society. Their agenda isn't to remove the fun away by calling fanfics transformative, but to protect the fun by telling people that fanfics are legit because transformative works have a better chance to be protected by fair use laws.