#11 - Kopitar Prefers Amps That Go to Eleven

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This is the eleventh post of Deke Dangle RPF Anon, a community for all your ice hockey anon meme needs.

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Re: general RPF fandom discussion

[(Anonymous)]

You're saying that both sides have an emotional and intellectual component to them. What the author is saying is that choosing to stop reading/writing K/T is emotional but continuing to read it is the logical choice. This is the part people have a problem with. It is very easy to form a logical argument for why fic about Kane should be abandoned. There is also a lot of emotion involved in choosing to ignore the reality of rape to keep writing about your fave. By ignoring these facts, the author is presenting a flawed and frankly insulting argument.

Re: general RPF fandom discussion

[(Anonymous)]

When I read meta, I try to only read it for what the author explicitly says because I don't think I can make proper assumptions and inferences behind that, just like when you read an history paper a student writes you can only judge what's there and not infer anything from the paper because it's not fiction. That's probably why I don't immediately see the author saying what you have interpreted. Then again, I could read the meta as absences, so I don't really know. It's confusing because neither way gives the reader the full idea of what the author is thinking, especially in such a short pieces that could have been expanded on.

Re: general RPF fandom discussion

[(Anonymous)]

She explicitly says that choosing to withdraw is an emotional response, you noodle. Parent up, the quote is there. She goes on to discuss how using reason shows there is nothing wrong with reading or writing Kane fic. No one needs to read into absences or apply post-modern literary theory.

(autocorrect tried to make post-modern post-mortem. I assume it's a proponent of Death of the Author.)

Re: general RPF fandom discussion

[(Anonymous)]

I don't flatmeme, anon. I have in fact read the quote. They says that choosing to withdraw is an emotional response, yes. They don't say there is no intellectual side to that, though, just as they don't say there's no emotional side to them wanting to continue. A choice isn't just made of one thing, it's made of many. I guess I'm just trying to think that there's a lot the person isn't saying. Evidently that's not what most readers do, so the way we read the meta is different, even if we reach the same conclusion in essence.

(I'm glad that your phone/tablet/? reads Roland Barthes. That has made my evening :))

Re: general RPF fandom discussion

[(Anonymous)]

Okay. If that's your perspective, then even allowing that the author believes the emotional response was thought about, and her reasoned response factored in emotion, she still chose to characterise those responses in her essay as emotional and reasonable, respectively.

Re: general RPF fandom discussion

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

What you're doing is inference and not an explicit reading though..???