zagzagael (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} zagzagael) wrote,@ 2008-05-01 09:42:00 |
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AARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*headdesk*
Maybe it's because I'm writing this reverse May-December, maybe it's because I'm in my forties, maybe it's because I adore all men of all ages, but I have finally fookin snapped about something I see all too often in some fandoms. Middle-aged men are NOT old, they do not suffer from erectile dysfunction, they are not attractive despite "being an old guy", they are not used up, dried up, tired, or dull. Men over forty rock fookin hard. Men over fifty also can knock you sideways. Men in their sixties...are beginning to move into another sexual territory....and men in their seventies are still willing to take a run at it....but my own experience is limited there. Heh. Young women who write in fandoms with male characters who are over forty can make assumptions that are just plain and simply AGEIST. (Viagra and its ilk have really sent a strange message to many, many women and I fear far too many men. Priapism is not funny and not something that we, as a culture, should be wanting men to move towards in a misguided attempt at normalizing sexual function. The vast majority of men AND women over forty function just fine, thank you very much, sexually in a physiological way, what happens between middle-aged ears is something that might be up for discussion moreso than what's happening elsewhere.)
If an individual has a personal experience of sexual dysfunction or physical repugnancy with the over-forty crowd, fine, write about it in your fandom of choice, but to just blithely type out ageist comments and assumptions puts me off a fic entirely. Hugh Laurie, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Eddie Izzard, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave - c'mon, who else? - are all men who are incredibly attractive and pretty damned virile in appearance, I don't want to hear about Dr. Cave's receding hairline, Rickman's paunch, Oldman's greying goatee, or how Hugh looks young for his age. And I don't want to read ageist assumptions in fandom fics or meta communities, anymore, I would rather those fangrrls write Supernatural fic then or HPVerse schoolage fic.
/rant
I'm serious.
/slight rant slippage
Okay, I have no idea how to rip dvds and make fangrrly vids but if I did I would rip me some Supernatural - yeah, yeah, I broke down and bought both seasons - and set my fanvid to this Neil Diamond gem -
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
I think the Supernatural team should hire someone to smex that song up and put it in their show.
Much of Diamond's ouevere could really be modernized in the most delicious of ways. I love Neil, and yes, I heard that he was just the guest composer on American Idol and I downloaded David Cook's gorgeous renditions, but it's not enough. We need more down and dirty interpretations of Diamond's work. Here is my favourite Neil song of all time -
Play Me
*off to find my own middle-aged Viking*
*headdesk*
Maybe it's because I'm writing this reverse May-December, maybe it's because I'm in my forties, maybe it's because I adore all men of all ages, but I have finally fookin snapped about something I see all too often in some fandoms. Middle-aged men are NOT old, they do not suffer from erectile dysfunction, they are not attractive despite "being an old guy", they are not used up, dried up, tired, or dull. Men over forty rock fookin hard. Men over fifty also can knock you sideways. Men in their sixties...are beginning to move into another sexual territory....and men in their seventies are still willing to take a run at it....but my own experience is limited there. Heh. Young women who write in fandoms with male characters who are over forty can make assumptions that are just plain and simply AGEIST. (Viagra and its ilk have really sent a strange message to many, many women and I fear far too many men. Priapism is not funny and not something that we, as a culture, should be wanting men to move towards in a misguided attempt at normalizing sexual function. The vast majority of men AND women over forty function just fine, thank you very much, sexually in a physiological way, what happens between middle-aged ears is something that might be up for discussion moreso than what's happening elsewhere.)
If an individual has a personal experience of sexual dysfunction or physical repugnancy with the over-forty crowd, fine, write about it in your fandom of choice, but to just blithely type out ageist comments and assumptions puts me off a fic entirely. Hugh Laurie, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Eddie Izzard, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave - c'mon, who else? - are all men who are incredibly attractive and pretty damned virile in appearance, I don't want to hear about Dr. Cave's receding hairline, Rickman's paunch, Oldman's greying goatee, or how Hugh looks young for his age. And I don't want to read ageist assumptions in fandom fics or meta communities, anymore, I would rather those fangrrls write Supernatural fic then or HPVerse schoolage fic.
/rant
I'm serious.
/slight rant slippage
Okay, I have no idea how to rip dvds and make fangrrly vids but if I did I would rip me some Supernatural - yeah, yeah, I broke down and bought both seasons - and set my fanvid to this Neil Diamond gem -
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
I think the Supernatural team should hire someone to smex that song up and put it in their show.
Much of Diamond's ouevere could really be modernized in the most delicious of ways. I love Neil, and yes, I heard that he was just the guest composer on American Idol and I downloaded David Cook's gorgeous renditions, but it's not enough. We need more down and dirty interpretations of Diamond's work. Here is my favourite Neil song of all time -
Play Me
*off to find my own middle-aged Viking*
