There was a lot of high-sounding ideals about nobody having the right to tell women what they could or couldn't write at the time it was started.
Although the founding involved a lot of metaphorical jumping up and down about men trying to force women into their agenda, and freedom of expression, the actual flash point that started it was when a couple of the archives, and LJ where a lot of people posted their fic back then, removed a particular genre of stories in the Harry Potter fandom about Harry, or sometimes one of the other pupils, being 'seduced' into sexual relationships with various adult members of Hogwarts. So perhaps not quite such high ideals as the founders would have you believe!
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on 2020-11-30 03:28 pm (UTC)Although the founding involved a lot of metaphorical jumping up and down about men trying to force women into their agenda, and freedom of expression, the actual flash point that started it was when a couple of the archives, and LJ where a lot of people posted their fic back then, removed a particular genre of stories in the Harry Potter fandom about Harry, or sometimes one of the other pupils, being 'seduced' into sexual relationships with various adult members of Hogwarts. So perhaps not quite such high ideals as the founders would have you believe!