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Fansplaining Shipping Survey
Recently the hosts of the podcast Fansplanining ran a surrey about shipping. I'm totally fascinated by the survey at its results.
Here is the episode (with transcript for those who prefer that) where they go over the results.
There's cool Data Visualization. And an article on the top-line results form shippers who responed and one on the technical aspects of the Methodology.
Its really interesting to see what people said! What do you think about the results? Do they reflect your experiences?
Here is the episode (with transcript for those who prefer that) where they go over the results.
There's cool Data Visualization. And an article on the top-line results form shippers who responed and one on the technical aspects of the Methodology.
Its really interesting to see what people said! What do you think about the results? Do they reflect your experiences?
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I was surprised at just how high the percentage of people saying they weren't straight was, though. I know previous surveys of this kind have gotten a lot of not-straight respondents before, but I wasn't expecting the number to be quite that high when I clicked on the tab.
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The race question - I'm American myself, so I get the temptation to just use the standard American version of the question, but as you can see from the answers, it doesn't work well for an international audience, and some people were either confused or upset by it. There has to be a better way to do it. Or just leave it out. I'm not sure it contributed much and the hosts don't talk about the context it supposedly provides.
I also thought that the follow-up questions about how other fans have affected what people ship or how they feel about a ship were kind of vague. I would have at least separated it into positive/negative experiences based on the previous questions, and added an inverse for the 'have you ever started shipping something because of other fans' question.
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For me, "shipping" something (be it a pairing or a threesome or moresome) means you are specifically invested in that relationship. Not just one character and whoever they happen to be with, but both/all characters in that relationship and the dynamic between them.
I dunno, maybe it's from coming up in fandom during the ship wars of the early 2000s when you had your One True Pairing and that was shipping. I mean, I never had an OTP because I'm polyfannish and love lots of pairings, but shipping to me is definitely about the relationSHIP. Using a character as a little black dress (they go with everything!) is awesome, but not the same thing.
But, obviously from the results of the survey, there are a lot of people who are closer to your opinion than mine, and that for me was really interesting.
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Haven't listened to the episode, but having listened to the podcast before, this doesn't surprise me. One of the reasons I stopped listening is that I persistently could not relate to the way at least one of the hosts experienced fandom or the conclusions she drew as a result, and I also felt just enough subtle disapproving judgment of my way of doing fandom (a lot of "really? that's weird" kind of reactions) that it just got too stressful to listen to.
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