Those who read fanfiction: please read this

on the off chance that you haven't seen it already. PLEASE post this anywhere you feel it might be seen by other fans, including communities (with the permission of the mods, of course). We need to get the word out.

eruthros writes about why you shouldn't take that fanfiction survey --the one that calls itself "neurobiological." Apparently the people behind it are neuroscience researchers and their methods are pretty skeevy:

They are outsiders to fandom. They are outsiders to fanfiction. They are outsiders to slash. And they haven't tried to learn, or to understand, or to think about fannish communities. Instead, they have made assumptions about who we are, about what we read, about what we find hot; they plan to use those to explain what makes women tick, what our brains make us do...they want to look at how we are hard-wired different.

(Found at kassrachel's dreamwidth blog.)

I strongly suggest reading eruthros' entry, and the replies. It's even worse than we originally thought.

Suggestion, in the comments, of who to contact with your displeasure.

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Tell me what you see in this post?

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① ① ② ③ ④

① shows up as that weird, broken x2460; printed to screen w/o showing the ampersand or pound (as you can see), but the next one--same exact code-- shows up as ①.