AMVGuide, you said @Kionon, so I am going to presume that little primer was directed at me. Do you at all see the irony in lecturing
me on hormone balances and their subsequent traits?
I probably know more about this stuff both in theory and in personal experience than most individuals here. Certainly most men. Although, in my experience, women in general have a far better understanding of hormonal balances affect moods, actions, and personalities (as well as physical traits) because of the menstrual cycle, use of hormonal birth control, hormone replacement therapy, menopause, etc.
If you were just making general comments and happened to tag me for some strange reason knowing that I was already well aware of this stuff, then please accept my apologies.
Gender is a social construction, but also a real one. Of course it comes through in art. And certainly a hormonal imbalance can given one different perspectives on art which might come through in creative endeavours, but hormone imbalances don't create gender. They just might dispose one towards a gender construction which is already in existence in a certain time, place, culture.
Castor Troy wrote:When the hell was there ever an apparent problem with men dominating over women in the amv community? Kionon, you've been around longer than the time EK was dominating the scene with her "Failed Experiments in Video Editing" video, so why has this suddenly become a problem for you?
You tell me. Is this suddenly a new issue? Did it just somehow develop in the time I've become aware of it? I'm well aware of EK's popularity, but I have a hard, hard time believing that EK managed to dominate the
entire hobby by herself? This isn't about numbers, so I'd seriously consider any evidence you had of that. I am not planning to speak for EK, although I might send her a message asking if she has any particular thought on this and how it affected the early days.
Why has this suddenly become a problem for me? First, I quibble with the word suddenly. It's taken me a few years to go to this point and quite a few months of observations to finish and release the essay. Now, if you ask me why it has become a problem over the last few years, there are a few reasons, most notably the removal of my own privilege blinders. Your critique here is valid; where was I? As I look back at years old bullshit comments, I have to wonder where the hell I was, too. Well, I will be blunt, there is personal experience here as well. That's how privilege works. It blinds you until you yourself no longer have privilege, for one reason or another, and what I have experienced is part of a larger pervasive pattern.
What has been seen cannot be unseen.
No. This type of discussion does not belong on the .org. This is a place to talk about videos, not your desire to be every woman's knight in shining armor.
General AMV is also a place to talk about issues in the
AMV communities? Unless you're suggesting we stop talking about how we treat outsiders or newbies or WMM users or, etc, etc. Why bother talking about the ways in which the hobby socialises at all if this is only a place to talk about videos?
You're accusing
me of white knighting? Are you serious? Do you even know what that means? You act as though just because it was crap directed at others that prompted me to post this that I'm somehow exempt from it myself. This was a feminist critique by a feminist who has had her own personal fill of misogynistic bullshit thrown her way in AMV spaces. Don't put me in some kind of category as an unaffected third party riding in to save the day. Seriously, cut that out.
We were fine the way we were before. Thanks.

Yeah, because these are experiences you don't have to deal with so they must not exist and must not be a problem for anyone ever.
