#feb 15

1) Yes it's an issue, has negative cultural effects, harmful for feminism

2) Yes, at least I find it very annoying

3) Find it bad for some other reason

4) No idea

5) DON'T CARE

6) No, this is a "god forbid women like anything" type situation

7) No the opposite it's empowering

8) Other

*Inspired by some tumblr discourse that keeps popping up on my dash. They talk like the audience obsessing over male characters and disliking and/or disregarding female characters in media, up to and including neglecting them in fanfiction, was a Real Problem. But they don't have cishet men in mind when they say this, it's SPECIFICALLY about women neglecting female representation, especially in fan spaces, by being too much into making middle aged white men kiss.

A woman at the entrance of the Stage Door Canteen shakes hands with Chief Petty Officer James Reeves, who is the 200,000th guest at the United Service Organizations (USO) recreation center, as other servicemen wait in line, February 15, 1944.

"Some of the early songs are postcards to my future self about a moment in time; at the time, they were snapshots whose context was knowable mainly, and often only, by me; so I'll say here only that this song marks an occasion, and that now, decades later, I'm very glad to have so marked that occasion, which would otherwise be lost entirely. When I sent the track to Alastair Galbraith for violins, he knew the text only on its merits, but I felt like he understood it, and that his contribution underscored that. That's all I have to say about any of that; this isn't a memoir, unless it is."