I've given up trying to determine how old people are based on the fanfic they write. I assumed *for years* that Casandra Claire, of epic Harry/Draco slash fame before she went on to mainstream publishing YA sucess with her Mortal Instruments series, must be very young, what with her tastes, her affection/feel for teenage protagonists and their ALL CAPS DRAMA, her difficulties with mimicry verging on plagirism, her flair for pasitche .... Then I caught a pic and a bio on one of younger boy's copies of her books.
She is not *very young.* She's not even a little young. She was born in 1973, which makes her only 8 years younger than I am. She was in her thirties when she was writing her Harry/Draco tales.
So - I am not at all sure that the authors of the *very few* Doris-centric-ish stories aren't old enough to be parents. They may even be parents of young children. I rather doubt they are currently parents of teens. Or, perhaps it would be better to say, I hope they are not currenlty parenting teens. Or none of the above, of course, but.... sadly enough, I don't think their fic gives any true clues. Except, of course, to their giant ass blinkers of unexamined cultural misogyny. I mean, they are self-aware enough to write perfectly reasonsble and persuasive and canon compliant back story, giving Doris voice and independence and professional savy... and then seem to just assume that it is obvious that the audience will naturally hate her. Wierd.
My fingers have hoovered over the keyboard more than once, longing to ask why they think the Doris they've just created is such a bad person, because to me she doesn't seem bad at all.... And then good sense returns and I do not. :-)
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Date: 2013-08-31 05:11 am (UTC)She is not *very young.* She's not even a little young. She was born in 1973, which makes her only 8 years younger than I am. She was in her thirties when she was writing her Harry/Draco tales.
So - I am not at all sure that the authors of the *very few* Doris-centric-ish stories aren't old enough to be parents. They may even be parents of young children. I rather doubt they are currently parents of teens. Or, perhaps it would be better to say, I hope they are not currenlty parenting teens. Or none of the above, of course, but.... sadly enough, I don't think their fic gives any true clues. Except, of course, to their giant ass blinkers of unexamined cultural misogyny. I mean, they are self-aware enough to write perfectly reasonsble and persuasive and canon compliant back story, giving Doris voice and independence and professional savy... and then seem to just assume that it is obvious that the audience will naturally hate her. Wierd.
My fingers have hoovered over the keyboard more than once, longing to ask why they think the Doris they've just created is such a bad person, because to me she doesn't seem bad at all.... And then good sense returns and I do not. :-)