littlegreen42! Come tell us your somewhat Muldercentric opinion on the matter!
Well, if you insist. ;)
Um, I don't know if this is completely related to what you and tiger_bay are saying, but I think it is (even though I'm probably understanding this in a different sort of way), so bear with me here...
There's a lot of reference to, for lack of a better term, Mulder!Torture in Our Mulders (i.e. "We placed him on a pedestal and then gently and lovingly tipped it over...just to watch it fall" and "We knocked him on his ass until he started crying then wrapped him up in a blanket before he could start to complain about the cold."). In Our Scullys all the stuff about her getting hurt seems tied in with canon, rather than something done to the character by fic authors. I mean, there is discussion about how fic authors make her "a victim," but there's a sense that nothing is really added that wasn't on the show. Now, it is true that Mulder went through all kinds of crap in canon, and that's probably where the tendency to hurt the poor guy in fic comes from, but I feel like authors often go beyond this. With Scully, I haven't really seen the same kind of thing.
The thought I had about all of this was: it's almost like fic authors and readers are feeling through Mulder -- like, there's this level of catharsis with him that you don't see with Scully, and I think that's tied up with the fact that Mulder, for all his outward stoicism, is the more emotional character. Now, I could be wrong about this; there may be many people who experience catharsis on the same level through Scully. It might just be because I identify more strongly with Mulder that I see things this way. But I think there is good reason to believe that Mulder, in all his emotionality, might be more receptive to any feelings that we might want to project onto him.
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Date: 2011-02-03 05:54 am (UTC)Well, if you insist. ;)
Um, I don't know if this is completely related to what you and
There's a lot of reference to, for lack of a better term, Mulder!Torture in Our Mulders (i.e. "We placed him on a pedestal and then gently and lovingly tipped it over...just to watch it fall" and "We knocked him on his ass until he started crying then wrapped him up in a blanket before he could start to complain about the cold."). In Our Scullys all the stuff about her getting hurt seems tied in with canon, rather than something done to the character by fic authors. I mean, there is discussion about how fic authors make her "a victim," but there's a sense that nothing is really added that wasn't on the show. Now, it is true that Mulder went through all kinds of crap in canon, and that's probably where the tendency to hurt the poor guy in fic comes from, but I feel like authors often go beyond this. With Scully, I haven't really seen the same kind of thing.
The thought I had about all of this was: it's almost like fic authors and readers are feeling through Mulder -- like, there's this level of catharsis with him that you don't see with Scully, and I think that's tied up with the fact that Mulder, for all his outward stoicism, is the more emotional character. Now, I could be wrong about this; there may be many people who experience catharsis on the same level through Scully. It might just be because I identify more strongly with Mulder that I see things this way. But I think there is good reason to believe that Mulder, in all his emotionality, might be more receptive to any feelings that we might want to project onto him.