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{{Quotation|"Anyway, basically what I’m saying is, we need to change our own culture. We all need to stop acting like slash is a dirty secret, for a start. We need to stop allowing a culture of shame around it like it’s something that needs hushing up. People have a million reasons to not talk about their fannish activities in connection with their daily lives, and that’s fine, but inside fannish spaces we really need to stop hushing each other up over topics that, in this day and age, are really not scandalous."}}

{{Quotation|"Anyway, basically what I’m saying is, we need to change our own culture. We all need to stop acting like slash is a dirty secret, for a start. We need to stop allowing a culture of shame around it like it’s something that needs hushing up. People have a million reasons to not talk about their fannish activities in connection with their daily lives, and that’s fine, but inside fannish spaces we really need to stop hushing each other up over topics that, in this day and age, are really not scandalous."}}

==Reactions and Reponses==

==Reactions and Responses==

The tumblr post was liked and reblogged xx times. A few fans added their comments:

The tumblr post was liked and reblogged xx times. A few fans added their comments:

{{Quotation|"i love you, fandom, and i think this entire conversation is vitally important and i’m glad we’re having it in earnest, but fhew, i have never before read such excellent essays and come to the exact opposite conclusions from the authors’. destroying the fourth wall is just so intensely not the answer to this problem; if there were any way to re-erect it and then station jaegers around it to guard it from the kaiju outside, i would have it done. fandom has way WAY too much of its own shit to sort out before we can ever engage with the mainstream on any issue of import (lgbt+ media representation, feminist media criticism, representation of PoC and the differently-abled)...

{{Quotation|"i love you, fandom, and i think this entire conversation is vitally important and i’m glad we’re having it in earnest, but fhew, i have never before read such excellent essays and come to the exact opposite conclusions from the authors’. destroying the fourth wall is just so intensely not the answer to this problem; if there were any way to re-erect it and then [[Pacific Rim|station jaegers]] around it to guard it from the kaiju outside, i would have it done. fandom has way WAY too much of its own shit to sort out before we can ever engage with the mainstream on any issue of import (lgbt+ media representation, feminist media criticism, representation of PoC and the differently-abled)...

...in short, 0/10 COURSE OF ACTION, WOULD NOT RECOMMEND."<ref>{{source| url = http://iwritesometimes.tumblr.com/post/91111243549/i-loved-that-essay-on-the-4th-wall-you-reblogged | title = things i write about sometimes - I loved that essay on the 4th Wall you reblogged... | archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20141224175335/http://iwritesometimes.tumblr.com/post/91111243549/i-loved-that-essay-on-the-4th-wall-you-reblogged | archivedate = 2014-12-24 }}</ref>}}

...in short, 0/10 COURSE OF ACTION, WOULD NOT RECOMMEND."<ref>{{source| url = http://iwritesometimes.tumblr.com/post/91111243549/i-loved-that-essay-on-the-4th-wall-you-reblogged | title = things i write about sometimes - I loved that essay on the 4th Wall you reblogged... | archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20141224175335/http://iwritesometimes.tumblr.com/post/91111243549/i-loved-that-essay-on-the-4th-wall-you-reblogged | archivedate = 2014-12-24 }}</ref>}}

 

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