...to push back through celebration and creativity against those who wish to control me.
God yes. This IS fandom to me. We are born pushers. Questioners. Fillers in of empty space. Wordsmiths. Line blurrers. Gleeful scribblers. Beholden to none. No canon is sacred.
As a fan of Heartless Bitches International back when it updated frequently and a former subscriber to Bitch magazine when I had time to read them, "bitch" is one of my favorite reclaimed words. For me, Cumberbitch is a great joke that we collectively made.
I agree, BC himself is probably uncomfortable with the term because he doesn't want to be seen as the sort of person who uses the word bitch in a derogatory manner. And he'd never want to apply it to the people who are his fans.
I strongly suspect he'd love this argument in favor of it, but the wide world, especially the popular press, is no place for such nuanced distinctions.
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Date: 2013-08-12 07:31 pm (UTC)...to push back through celebration and creativity against those who wish to control me.
God yes. This IS fandom to me. We are born pushers. Questioners. Fillers in of empty space. Wordsmiths. Line blurrers. Gleeful scribblers. Beholden to none. No canon is sacred.
As a fan of Heartless Bitches International back when it updated frequently and a former subscriber to Bitch magazine when I had time to read them, "bitch" is one of my favorite reclaimed words. For me, Cumberbitch is a great joke that we collectively made.
I agree, BC himself is probably uncomfortable with the term because he doesn't want to be seen as the sort of person who uses the word bitch in a derogatory manner. And he'd never want to apply it to the people who are his fans.
I strongly suspect he'd love this argument in favor of it, but the wide world, especially the popular press, is no place for such nuanced distinctions.