Our Faves Are Problematic

This is the tumblr-based home of the Southern Oregon University Queer and Women's Resource Centers't fandom studies group, where we'll be posting about our discussions and fandoms.

[soufandom-blog]

Here it is friends and fans! This is the abridged version of the presentation we didn’t get to give last Monday due to technical difficulties.

Here are links to some of the included sources:

Mary Sue, what are you? by @ladyloveandjustice

The Importance of Mary Sue by @unwinona

This is the original story of the Mary Sue.

[souwrc]

[feministdisney]

At 81, Disney's First African-American Animator Is Still In The Studio

First hired in the 1950s, Floyd Norman is still drawing. "Creative people don't hang it up," he says. "We don't walk away, we don't want to sit in a lawn chair. ... We want to continue to work. "

[dailysupergirlgifs]

There are so many amazing female superheroes that are being represented on both TV and in movies. Do you look forward to a time when it’s just not a big deal anymore, where it’s just sort of common place?

lgbt rep on television, otherwise known as:

the dead lesbian

the token gay

the suffering bisexual

the non-existent trans person

[ainaraoftime-deactivated2025020]

#note: the suffering bisexual isnt allowed to use the word ‘bisexual’

[necrofuturism]

this sounds like the basis for a superhero team

an undead lesbian hero who has the power of immortality 

a gay hero who can copy themselves over and over and appear as a “token” in other people’s lives, gathering important information

a bisexual hero impervious to pain who can invoke the powers of ice and fire by saying a certain incantation word

a trans hero who can warp spacetime and travel transdimentionally in and out of our current universe

[mythopoeticlicense]

I see the asexual’s power of invisibility remain as strong as ever

[centrumlumina]

A ranked list of the most popular relationship tags on AO3.

For more information and analysis, check out #ao3 ship stats.

[hermionescisgenderpenis]

The giant sea of blue and the literally only FOUR pink ones isn’t indicative of a wide-scale systemic problem at all

[gothicegg]

even the smattering of gen is between two dudes

[mswyrr-deactivated20181203]

IT’S RAINING MOSTLY CIS WHITE MEN

HALLELUJAH

[plannedparenthood]

Not only is Wonder Woman a total badass hero (and to toot our own horn, she may be loosely based on our real-life founder, Margaret Sanger) but DC comics author Greg Rucka has confirmed — she’s bisexual!

Here’s why it matters>>

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Our Faves Are Problematic is a feminist fandom studies discussion group at the Southern Oregon University Women’s Resource Center. There, fans can get together to watch the things they love and then talk about them from a feminist perspective. During the first meeting, we'll be talking about how feminist theory and fandom studies overlap and discussing what to watch at future meetings. Come and enjoy!