Yeah, Sith Academy is not one of the groups I've stereotyped as straight women (and there's really nothing in that essay which even plays on the stereotypes associated with straight slashers.) The bit she cited to that essay was "Slash communities, made up almost exclusively of overeducated but underemployed heterosexual women who are oppressed not only by patriarchy but by their employment status".
Which, the Sith Academy essay is an awesome bit of satirical economic/feminist analysis of Sith Academy, so I guess she was only citing it for the last clause; and it's not her fault that nowhere in her paper was it clear the essay she was citing was parodic - and I've done plenty of sloppy citing in my time, too, and got a thrill out of slipping in satire as the real thing. I don't condemn the sloppy, I just wish it didn't get so perpetuated. And from the people I still see around who were Sith Academy people, I suspect they would object strongly to being called "almost exclusively heterosexual".
(I do have a whole rant about how too much of modern academia - in the hard and the soft sciences - seems to aspire to medieval scholasticism when it comes to citation. But that's a whole 'nother rant.)
Seeing the actual data on the two Master/Apprentice polls would be nice, too, though I wouldn't be surprised if the trendline goes back and the numbers are close to or belowe the Library of Moria one. (I'm not sure that would reflect an actual change in demographic so much as a change in what people are willing to publicly identify as, though.)
If I do write this up more formally, I'll probably be trying to contact some of the people who might have data from the lost polls; they're mostly still around. (I wonder what kind of result you *would* get shooting a poll (or an oral history request!) through one of the mostly-quiet mailing lists of ten years ago. I know I haven't bothered unsubscribing to any...)
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Which, the Sith Academy essay is an awesome bit of satirical economic/feminist analysis of Sith Academy, so I guess she was only citing it for the last clause; and it's not her fault that nowhere in her paper was it clear the essay she was citing was parodic - and I've done plenty of sloppy citing in my time, too, and got a thrill out of slipping in satire as the real thing. I don't condemn the sloppy, I just wish it didn't get so perpetuated. And from the people I still see around who were Sith Academy people, I suspect they would object strongly to being called "almost exclusively heterosexual".
(I do have a whole rant about how too much of modern academia - in the hard and the soft sciences - seems to aspire to medieval scholasticism when it comes to citation. But that's a whole 'nother rant.)
Seeing the actual data on the two Master/Apprentice polls would be nice, too, though I wouldn't be surprised if the trendline goes back and the numbers are close to or belowe the Library of Moria one. (I'm not sure that would reflect an actual change in demographic so much as a change in what people are willing to publicly identify as, though.)
If I do write this up more formally, I'll probably be trying to contact some of the people who might have data from the lost polls; they're mostly still around. (I wonder what kind of result you *would* get shooting a poll (or an oral history request!) through one of the mostly-quiet mailing lists of ten years ago. I know I haven't bothered unsubscribing to any...)