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swatkatincreasingly i tire of fannish gatekeeping, and things you can and cannot say in fan spaces. i don't mean non-fannish things here - i think it's reasonable to not wish to deal with RL things in fan spaces, even though the very nature of social media makes such compartmentalization impossible. but there's other kinds of gatekeeping - things that i daresay i have participated in in my own time - that i can longer have patience with, can no longer condone.
it's important to separate this from the facile cries of censorship that fannish assholes tend to throw up at the slightest critique from marginalized fan voices (ie. "please don't be racist"/"you"re ceNSOrING mE"). the cries of censorship tend to shout down legitimate fannish criticism and make fandom more hostile for fans from various sections of the society, esp. poc. but that's not how fannish gatekeeping works, no. fannish gatekeeping is a more insidious form of action that encourages self-censorship by the way of peer pressure.
in many, this kind of gatekeeping is also a specific product of the very nature of contemporary social media wherein compartmentalization of posts/feed is no longer possible or desired, but it would not do to negate individual agency or forms of entitlement that makes it socially acceptable. just another one of those things, i suppose.
it's important to separate this from the facile cries of censorship that fannish assholes tend to throw up at the slightest critique from marginalized fan voices (ie. "please don't be racist"/"you"re ceNSOrING mE"). the cries of censorship tend to shout down legitimate fannish criticism and make fandom more hostile for fans from various sections of the society, esp. poc. but that's not how fannish gatekeeping works, no. fannish gatekeeping is a more insidious form of action that encourages self-censorship by the way of peer pressure.
in many, this kind of gatekeeping is also a specific product of the very nature of contemporary social media wherein compartmentalization of posts/feed is no longer possible or desired, but it would not do to negate individual agency or forms of entitlement that makes it socially acceptable. just another one of those things, i suppose.
