You know what? I’m going to repeat what I said on my other comment (the “you” I was addressing there was Aunt_Zelda, of course):
I don’t think anyone thinks you’re forcing them, but-- as someone who almost always focuses on women in media, especially queer women-- it comes off as... odd. I love writing about women-- that’s why most of my noms are women! If people are really that interested in writing about POC, LGBTQ people, women, or disabled characters, then it seems that they will probably already be nominating those characters.
And YMMV here (I’m a lesbian, but other issues here don’t apply to me), but it comes across as focusing more on the tickyboxes the characters check off than the actual characters. Personally, I’m not interested in stories that center around being a woman, or being queer, or being disabled, or being POC. I want stories where my two faves who happen to be women are together. Or solve mysteries, or go on adventures, or whatever.
Edited to add (because I had more thoughts): The Misses Clause challenge post is already up. Presumably that’s (partly) what this was all about? And there’s been no problems with it, because the people who run the challenge are inclusive. They don’t say “you’re doing it wrong if you don’t do this” (which is how the original post came off). They say, “here is a fun thing we enjoy, and we want you to enjoy!” That is, in fact, how all the Yuletide challenges are run, including Crueltide and Yuleporn and the IF challenges. They’re not about changing minds or scoring points in an argument or “fixing” Yuletide, they’re about gathering like-minded fans together and having fun.
BTW, aunt_zelda, screening comments that disagree with you and letting only the positive ones through is not a good look. Disagreement is not the same as “hate”.
Re: Are y'all serious?
I don’t think anyone thinks you’re forcing them, but-- as someone who almost always focuses on women in media, especially queer women-- it comes off as... odd. I love writing about women-- that’s why most of my noms are women! If people are really that interested in writing about POC, LGBTQ people, women, or disabled characters, then it seems that they will probably already be nominating those characters.
And YMMV here (I’m a lesbian, but other issues here don’t apply to me), but it comes across as focusing more on the tickyboxes the characters check off than the actual characters. Personally, I’m not interested in stories that center around being a woman, or being queer, or being disabled, or being POC. I want stories where my two faves who happen to be women are together. Or solve mysteries, or go on adventures, or whatever.
Edited to add (because I had more thoughts): The Misses Clause challenge post is already up. Presumably that’s (partly) what this was all about? And there’s been no problems with it, because the people who run the challenge are inclusive. They don’t say “you’re doing it wrong if you don’t do this” (which is how the original post came off). They say, “here is a fun thing we enjoy, and we want you to enjoy!” That is, in fact, how all the Yuletide challenges are run, including Crueltide and Yuleporn and the IF challenges. They’re not about changing minds or scoring points in an argument or “fixing” Yuletide, they’re about gathering like-minded fans together and having fun.
BTW, aunt_zelda, screening comments that disagree with you and letting only the positive ones through is not a good look. Disagreement is not the same as “hate”.