Cofax7 on Twitter pointed out that what's especially infuriating is that he's being praised for what she and the rest of us are mocked for. You are absolutely right -- it's that quintessential devaluing of women's work. men's creative fannish endeavors are "real" (collecting, gaming) and women's work (writing, website curating, community building) are not.
I've been thinking about the piece that Grossman did about fanfic, The Boy Who Lived Forever, in 2011, http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2081784,00.html. Two reasons why I liked the piece so much -- he liked Narnia and HP so much he mashed them together to create Filory so Grossman gets it, and he actually went to fan creators when writing the piece. I've always loved Novik's point that no one criticizes you if you want to play someone else's music. The criticism that you aren't being properly creative if you write fan fic is rooted, in part, in the idea that people must not like to write because the only reason you would do it is to get paid. Which is so laughable at so many levels.
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I've been thinking about the piece that Grossman did about fanfic, The Boy Who Lived Forever, in 2011, http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2081784,00.html. Two reasons why I liked the piece so much -- he liked Narnia and HP so much he mashed them together to create Filory so Grossman gets it, and he actually went to fan creators when writing the piece. I've always loved Novik's point that no one criticizes you if you want to play someone else's music. The criticism that you aren't being properly creative if you write fan fic is rooted, in part, in the idea that people must not like to write because the only reason you would do it is to get paid. Which is so laughable at so many levels.