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[amadeupname]

I love reading stupid_free when I'm bored, but Christ on a cracker, if I hear "LOL fandom, you're just butthurt because you can't read your underage Snarry pr0nz" ONE MORE TIME ... well, I'll probably just scream into a pillow, but it's still frustrating. I get it, SFers, you don't like fandom and you think fanfic/art is creepy/a waste of time and effort/lollersauce/nothing but smut, that's great for you. Could you maybe stop with the fifty million threads bashing on fandom whenever it gets brought up, no matter how fleeting the reference? Fandom itself doesn't count as stupid.

Gah, I feel like I need to re-post that rant I wrote a few months ago about one's preferences not invalidating someone else's.

Also, new icon, dudes!

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[tariq-kamal.livejournal.com]

Fandom has a shitty reputation if the first thing that pops up from this whole fracas for people is that “pedophiles and fat lesbians are protesting, good riddance to them anyway.”

The fact that 6A/LJ can behave appallingly and attract no protest outside of a group of people whose most prominent members are… oh, I don’t know, Aja, batshit slashers, Domlijah tinhats and the lovers of denizens of the goddamn Astral Plane is horrible, and is a sign that the 6A/LJ are not the only people who are in dire, dire need of good PR management.

I mean seriously. It just demonstrates how fucking vulnerable fandom is. But it’s like very few people are seeing that, and are attributing this whole mess to the wrong things.

[thesaneminority.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I finally watched the Aja video and, while she's got a point, there are better ways to go about making said point. (And I must really be a more passive member of fandom than I thought, because I didn't even know she and this Domlijah shit even existed before today.)

There's no question that fandom is vulnerable - and it doesn't help that it's fallen victim to the too-common event of the relatively quiet sane members being lumped in with the vocal crazies. It's just sickening to see people pissing themselves to rag on a bunch of people who, for the most part, have a relatively harmless hobby that happens to make little sense to other people, because if it's happening to the "freaks" then who cares about double standards and kowtowing to the fundies?

(I thought fandom always had a shitty reputation. Why else would we have the stereotype of the cosplaying Star Wars nerds at conventions?)

[tariq-kamal.livejournal.com]

You know, there is a difference between belonging in a group filled with weirdos, and belonging in a group filled with pedos.

The former is uncomfortable, sure, and you know, embarrassing. But it’s not exactly a death sentence, and besides, there are times when you get to feel superior to Mr. Bathrobe Jedi.

The latter is bad. Not bad like embarrassing-bad, but bad like this-could-get-me-fired bad.

[thesaneminority.livejournal.com]

Does fandom really have that many pedos, though, or does it just look like it? I was under the impression that it had more crazy teenage girls in it than anything else (which, IMO, explains a lot of the underage smut, because they're more likely to write about either two characters close to their own age, or a younger character and an older character that they're likely attracted to, than they are about two adults), though that might just be the circles of fandom I tend to poke my head in.

Then again, just being associated with pedos, whether it's true or not, is this-could-get-me-fired-or-worse bad.

[tariq-kamal.livejournal.com]

That’s the thing — I don’t think it does, apart from the typical loud, stupid, scary, creepy or vocal minority. But that sort of thing, you know, gets managed out in other societies with stupid and frightening extremists. It doesn’t here, and it kind of gets to my nerves.