Sometimes it reminds me of one of my favorite Golden Girls moments where Sophia is telling a story about something and whoever she's talking to doesn't like it and she says, "I'm sitting here having a cup of tea, talking. The two of you are lookin' at me like you payed 80 dollars to see Phantom of the Opera!"
Fandom is just about talking to other people. It's not like you're joining a club. That I happen to be talking about the same set of books someone else is hardly means I should be saying something positive about them, or saying the same thing you would be. It's not like I'm going to change the way I react to the source material just so I can "be in fandom." Sometimes fandom does change the way I react to it, but not through peer pressure.
Heh. Sometimes I do sort of think, how would one go about kicking these people out of the fandom? Because really, why do you even think of them as being in the fandom if they're not conforming to your idea of a fan? Plenty of Tolkien people on my list occasionally say things like, "I just don't see the appeal of those books," or "This doesn't make sense to me in HP." Anybody can talk about anything.
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Date: 2004-12-01 02:10 pm (UTC)Fandom is just about talking to other people. It's not like you're joining a club. That I happen to be talking about the same set of books someone else is hardly means I should be saying something positive about them, or saying the same thing you would be. It's not like I'm going to change the way I react to the source material just so I can "be in fandom." Sometimes fandom does change the way I react to it, but not through peer pressure.
Heh. Sometimes I do sort of think, how would one go about kicking these people out of the fandom? Because really, why do you even think of them as being in the fandom if they're not conforming to your idea of a fan? Plenty of Tolkien people on my list occasionally say things like, "I just don't see the appeal of those books," or "This doesn't make sense to me in HP." Anybody can talk about anything.