Rudy Leon
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Rudy Leon was a member of the Highlander fan fiction community during the late 1990s. Rudy, a feminist, was a doctoral student at Syracuse University during this period. Rudy was a member of at least one feminist mailing list, For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature. In 1999, Rudy Leon characterized the fandom as being composed mostly of women. Rudy Leon on the For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature mailing list could only think of two male members in the fan fiction writing community. Rudy also characterized immortality as one discussed in the fan fiction from the point of view what does it mean to live forever, how do you relate to people you know you are going to outlive, the inability to prevent loved ones death and more. It was then asked if this sort of response was a gendered one.
