okay, fine, the Tiptree thing

Here's my thing. It seems like the argument I'm seeing most consistently aimed at people who are publically unhappy with "Arcana's" longlisting for the Tiptree Award goes a little something like this:
Fandom is different from other people. We have certain standards and expectations and conventions and we judge quality differently from the way people who give out "literary awards" do, and therefore to talk about whether "Arcana" is up to standard misses and distorts the most important question, which is "Whose standards?"

And this isn't an unreasonable thing to say. But I think it's fucking the debate on two different fronts.
( thusly: )