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Caspar pretty much brought up the point I'd be making.
Funnily enough, the use of Mary Sue surviving to this day is also a relic of, y'know, women being involved in fan spaces since the '70s and helping mold them. Same with slash.
I need to read me some more Henry Jenkins - only thing I read was a book distilling his three previous works and some odds-and-ends writing.
Besides, it would be very weird if the term itself was sexist that it would be used as the very title of The Mary Sue.
It's been USED in sexist ways - I (not-so) fondly remember my days in fan spaces where people would just toss mad amounts of gendered hate onto anyone who'd dare post a mary sue fic. Then again I'm not expecting anything more than basic "i like this / i hate this" with, if you're lucky, actual telling you of what they hated and liked, out of tweens/teenagers in fan spaces.
The term itself being sexist? I'm a dude who's never really thought about it, so I dunno.
Funnily enough, the use of Mary Sue surviving to this day is also a relic of, y'know, women being involved in fan spaces since the '70s and helping mold them. Same with slash.
I need to read me some more Henry Jenkins - only thing I read was a book distilling his three previous works and some odds-and-ends writing.
Besides, it would be very weird if the term itself was sexist that it would be used as the very title of The Mary Sue.
It's been USED in sexist ways - I (not-so) fondly remember my days in fan spaces where people would just toss mad amounts of gendered hate onto anyone who'd dare post a mary sue fic. Then again I'm not expecting anything more than basic "i like this / i hate this" with, if you're lucky, actual telling you of what they hated and liked, out of tweens/teenagers in fan spaces.
The term itself being sexist? I'm a dude who's never really thought about it, so I dunno.