Talk:My Inner Life/@comment-207.226.249.129-20140116191417/@comment-5502070-20140210173605

This a reply to the first comment's inital reply, since it's impossible for me to comment on it directly.

First of all, you are mistaken in thinking that the author of this fanfic was a 'teenager' when she wrote this, as she was very much an adult in her 20's. Second of all, don't think for one second that just because I or someone else wants to criticize a bad fanfic that we don't help out real people in need. There is absolutely nothing wrong with pointing out problematic themes in writing in our free time.

If you, replier, are in fact someone who indentifies as a woman that does not find herself oppressed on a regular basis by our patriarchal society, then I am very pleased for you. However, you are in the minority. If you have an issue and/or are annoyed by someone pointing internalized misogyny in a piece of written work, I don't really know what to tell you other than this wiki (and other places of criticism) were not tailored to cater to your preferences.

Helping out women at shelters and teaching young girls how to better deal with living in a patriarchal society are great things to do- but so is pointing out internalized misogyny in writing, be it TV, movies, books or, yes, even terrible, infamous fanfiction. The more we learn to recognize what this looks like, the greater a chance we have of erasing it completely.

Lastly, this wiki is hardly centered on the misogny in the story. It's hardly the focus of the comment you replied to, for that matter. It is mentioned perhaps three times in the whole wiki (if that) and only once in the OP's comment.

I'm not sure what your outright and seemingly fixated objection is to making mention of it at all, but I think you need to take a step back and realize that it's most certainly not the focus here and that you are making a bigger issue out of it than anyone on this page has yet to do.

Beyond that, I, nor anyone else, needs to justify our reasons for wanting to critique bad fanfic.