Re fandom and Gene: there was a massive row a few months back over use of racist language in a Gene PoV Life On Mars fic. Which, OK, you can justify as in character, but it came out that the OP really had no idea what she was doing and was actually quite racist herself.
There was a bit of a dispute among the non-racist fans between some people who thought it was in character and justified and others who thought that the racist insults in question were so vile that they should not ever be written except in a story whose primary purpose was to confront racism, but the main argument revealed that yes, there are some people in LoM fandom who sympathise with Gene for all the wrong reasons.
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Date: 2008-08-12 10:26 am (UTC)There was a bit of a dispute among the non-racist fans between some people who thought it was in character and justified and others who thought that the racist insults in question were so vile that they should not ever be written except in a story whose primary purpose was to confront racism, but the main argument revealed that yes, there are some people in LoM fandom who sympathise with Gene for all the wrong reasons.