Ha ha ha. All that whining about the manga/comics divide is totally me (well, ok, and other people, but the big wanky post is me). I keep feeling like a lot of the criticism I see of the OTW on the basis of the whole Western media fandom vs. speaker's fandom is about us not catering to some perceived difference between anime/manga fandoms and Western fandoms--but only in the sense that we're not catering to fans of (as someone put it in a comment on my post) 'readers of shounen, shoujo, and BL doujinshi produced after 1995'. And I want to wave my arms around and go: "What am I? Chopped liver?" (Being a fan of a bunch of other manga. Not that I'm not also in Western media fandom, so perhaps the point holds...)
But seriously, what is it specifically that you noticed? Is it just that Western media fandom BNF names were associated, or is there something in particular we're doing that's an issue? (I've certainly seen the "You're all slashers and don't like gen enough!" complaints, and those people have pointed to how we handle pairing vs. character tags in the archive, which is a very good point.)
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Date: 2010-01-04 09:35 am (UTC)But seriously, what is it specifically that you noticed? Is it just that Western media fandom BNF names were associated, or is there something in particular we're doing that's an issue? (I've certainly seen the "You're all slashers and don't like gen enough!" complaints, and those people have pointed to how we handle pairing vs. character tags in the archive, which is a very good point.)