There are many more infections that are not recorded because people are just never tested, or they never show up, because they have very few symptoms. These case fatality rate numbers are misleading. The initial estimates by the World Health Organization, which were case fatality estimates, were in the order of three to four per cent. Well, we’ve seen the same thing happen in the case of SARS CoV-2. Later, as studies were done about how widespread the disease actually had been in the population, those fatality rate numbers came very sharply downward. In the early days of that epidemic, people estimated a case fatality rate that was very, very high, and they panicked over it. And also because tumblr is popular with teenage girls, and there’s nothing reddit loves more than shitting on whatever teenage girls like.I want to bring the debate back to 2009 and the H1N1 epidemic. So, there you have it: /r/gallifrey’s bashing of reddit is part of a larger split in how men and women tend to enjoy fandom, and a lashing against how fanfiction/related things addresses fandom because it’s not the right “kind” of fandom. This is also where the ‘overreacting, shrieking SJW’ trope plays in, either because of a redditor’s misunderstanding of terms and therefore assuming that a mild critique is a scathing one, or because the tumblr user in question is young/inexperienced and jumping the gun. If I come to /r/gallifrey and start to talk about how ‘In the Forest of the Night’ had a questionable portrayal of mental health/autism, I get blank stare. Canon? No, but who gives a shit?Īlso, as transformative fandom tends to be an outsider looking in, they’re much more likely to analyze the work from a queer/PoC/neurodivergent/gender perspective. Scream of the Shalka is unambiguously not canon-but it doesn’t have to be in order for me to read and enjoy a 30k fic where the robotic Master was secretly in the TARDIS during Nine and Ten’s time and they shagged behind the scenes. Who cares about knowing about Tony Stark’s lovers if somebody’s gonna write a fic where Toni Stark is flying about? Their power is lessened. Why? Because, in their eyes, it devalues canon. Why? Because the majority of professionally-made media is catered towards a straight white male demographic, leaving little room for ‘outsiders.’ Outsiders who, if they want to see themselves in media, have to attack it and change it-hence slash fic, hence long essays claiming that Hermione Granger is black, hence canons about trans characters or genderqueer characters.Īnd then curative/male fandom tends to view most things that transformative/female fandom does with disdain. But men tend to be in the curative fandom, while transformative fandom is predominately women-and/or queer people, POC, etc. Note that this is phrased in a very particular way-obviously there’s guys who cosplay and write fic, obviously there’s women who don’t. Pick a random transformative fandom-er, and they’ll probably be female. Find a random male fan, and they’ll probably be in curative fandom. Here’s the big thing: there’s a gender split. (And livejournal, and dreamwidth, and fanfiction websites, and…) Why is Three easier to ship, while Seven is more difficult? What would happen if _? Transformative fandom is more or less the norm on tumblr. Let’s write fic! Let’s make art! Let’s make a fan vid! Let’s cosplay! Let’s somehow change the text. much the norm on reddit, especially r/gallifrey. What is the Doctor Who canon? Who is the best Doctor? How do Weeping Angels work? Etc etc. It’s about making sure that everything is lined up and in order, knowing how it works, and finding out which one is the best. Large fandoms-things like Doctor Who, or Supernatural, or Star Trek, or any superhero comic-tend to have unique and separate sides to them: curative and transformative.Ĭurative fandom is all about knowledge.
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