small thing: could you elaborate/define "selection bias"?
Uh, I guess I just mean that I'm going to choose to listen to people who ping with me. As a feminist fan who takes that approach to stories, I'm probably unconsciously selecting out other feminist fans who take that approach too for my flist/Google reader blogs. It might end up seeming to me as if that's a really widespread way of looking at things, even thought it's actually a tiny, tiny subgroup I happen to have made my fandom universe.
In that case, can you tell the entirety of Livejournal to stop making me feel like a bad feminist for liking a show about a slave prostitute mind-rape victim who will probably (two seasons from now) overthrow and possibly violently destroy her oppressors?
This is sadly not within my power. Speaking for myself, though, I'm glad the show is justifying its existence by giving some people I like enjoyment. I mean, the idea ofsome guys watching it and getting off on the whole setup and visual voyeurism and crap makes me kind of pissed off, and it's nice to know that there are people getting something out of it for better reasons than that.
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Date: 2009-02-28 09:43 am (UTC)Uh, I guess I just mean that I'm going to choose to listen to people who ping with me. As a feminist fan who takes that approach to stories, I'm probably unconsciously selecting out other feminist fans who take that approach too for my flist/Google reader blogs. It might end up seeming to me as if that's a really widespread way of looking at things, even thought it's actually a tiny, tiny subgroup I happen to have made my fandom universe.
In that case, can you tell the entirety of Livejournal to stop making me feel like a bad feminist for liking a show about a slave prostitute mind-rape victim who will probably (two seasons from now) overthrow and possibly violently destroy her oppressors?
This is sadly not within my power. Speaking for myself, though, I'm glad the show is justifying its existence by giving some people I like enjoyment. I mean, the idea ofsome guys watching it and getting off on the whole setup and visual voyeurism and crap makes me kind of pissed off, and it's nice to know that there are people getting something out of it for better reasons than that.