If I Build It, Would They Come?

[amalnahurriyeh]

If I were to start a DW community* specifically for feminist** fans of BBC Sherlock:

1) Would you join?
2) Would you participate in, say, weekly discussion posts?
3) Would you be willing to occasionally lead discussion posts?
4) Do you think sherlocked_feminists is a decent name? (I tried to pick one that made clear that the central fannish object is the BBC iteration, not the others--the comm as I envision it wouldn't be hostile to fans of the broader canon, but would specifically be intended for BBC!verse fans.)
5) And should I actually title it Angry Feminists Having Accidental Feels About BBC Sherlock? (to solve the Whose Face Are We Having Feels About Today problem.)

* keep in mind that the experience of philedom suggests I am not the world's best community mod, though my intentions are always good.

** with all the caveats that it's not a term everyone identifies with, and that the comm rules would make it clear that it's a broad category, and also that the relevant feminism would be intersectional (e.g., anti-racist, anti-homophobic, anti-transphobic, anti-classist, etc).

Comments

[kouredios]

I would join! And I would try to participate as much as possible!

re: #4...are we subverting the fact that Irene being "Sherlocked" was kind of offensive? I'm not sure that will go down 100% with everyone who might be interested, but I can see it as subversion if I squint. :D

[memories_child]

That's how I read it though I can definitely see why it might not go down well with everyone.

[amalnahurriyeh]

I was intending the subversion a little bit, but I suppose I was also framing it as my discomfort with the extent to which this canon owns my brain--like, I don't necessarily want to be fannish like this about this text, but it's no less true. But that's hard to communicate. Hmph. Will process moar.

[kouredios]

That works for me. I just wanted to raise the question. :)

I think that it might also work really well as a signal for what you want the comm to be: both feminist and squeeful at the same time. You're right it's hard to think of other playful alternatives.

[frayadjacent]

If it helps, amal's explanation is pretty much exactly how I interpreted the "sherlocked" title. Well, after thinking, "hey, that was my least favorite scene in the show!" So it works for me, but I can see kouredios's point.