{"id":185937,"date":"2014-10-18T13:08:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T13:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/18\/but-does-it-matter-that-two-middle-aged-men-with\/"},"modified":"2014-10-18T13:08:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T13:08:41","slug":"but-does-it-matter-that-two-middle-aged-men-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/18\/but-does-it-matter-that-two-middle-aged-men-with\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But does it matter that two middle-aged men with very large platforms were sitting at a table pathologising teenage girls\u2019 sexuality \u2013 and making a whole load of potentially harmful assumptions about a topic they know literally nothing about? Absolutely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>\u2014 <a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/mKxeq3gVUbkMajO-OqrduCw\" target=\"_blank\">elizabethminkel<\/a> wrote in\u00a0<a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/m06eZ7r6Abm5AW4PM543BMg\" target=\"_blank\">newstatesman<\/a> article, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/2014\/10\/why-it-doesn-t-matter-what-benedict-cumberbatch-thinks-sherlock-fan-fiction\" target=\"_blank\">Why it doesn\u2019t matter what Benedict Cumberbatch thinks of Sherlock fan fiction<\/a>&ldquo;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a mainstream media article that presents the human side of fandom, and talks about why it\u2019s important to have alternative forms of media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I fangirl this woman so hard right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/wearitcounts.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">wearitcounts<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But does it matter that two middle-aged men with very large platforms were sitting at a table pathologising teenage girls\u2019 sexuality \u2013 and making a whole load of potentially harmful assumptions about a topic they know literally nothing about? Absolutely. \u2014 elizabethminkel wrote in\u00a0newstatesman article, \u201cWhy it doesn\u2019t matter what Benedict Cumberbatch thinks of Sherlock &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/18\/but-does-it-matter-that-two-middle-aged-men-with\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13288,247,338,20095,11559,20094],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}