Anyone into Daredevil at all on my flist? My epic_rec last week was a DD crossover, and I ended up reading the fic (an old favourite) again, which led to me watching the director's cut of the movie again, which leads to me now having a re-read of the comics for the first time in a while. (And I'm doing a catch-up on the recent TPBs, having ordered them from the library system, because too expensive and too little space left in my flat for more than the one shelf unit full of US sized comics. Definitely something to be said for manga's more compact sizes.)
So something along these lines just moseyed by on tumblr and reminded me of something someone else said the other week that made me wtf, and do you know -- I really can't understand this fake fangirl business. Or why someone would get wound up to the extend of paranoia about being accused of not being a good enough/proper/real fan, because of, presumably, bullshit started by nerdboys who aren't comfortable with nerdgirls on their turf. If you fan in different ways to the guys who have to have every issue then arrange their collection with OCD accuracy and know the contents of every issue to quote numbers off the top of their heads (or equivalent examples), who cares? That's a passive type of fannishness anyway, compared to a female-dominated community that uses fandom to create.
I just-- who gives a shit? Really? Why should anyone else's version of fannishness impact you? I was in the sci-fi soc at uni, I was on the committee with the rest of the total headcases* ;) and sunk to legendary depths of geekness and alcohol abuse with 6-12 guys in a bar til midnight followed by someone-who-had-a-tv's room til 3am on a regular basis. I wasn't interested in the conversations they had about types of spaceships, they weren't interested in my fanfiction about Julian Bashir, but we still watched the same stuff together.
And if I didn't care at 19, then as a 37 year old woman I can't think of anything I could care about less than whether the fanboys think that my version of fannishness is "good enough"... or care to accept that they're the ones who set the bar for that anyway. (So if anyone else ever thinks I'm playing the I'm-a-better-fan-than-you game for any reason, I'm not. For the record. I wouldn't even be thinking about it.)
* Because it occured to me someone's bound to go there, saying I was one of the nutters (this committee was actually notorious) does not mean I'm saying I was more hardcore fannish than anyone who was not. Just stop it, 'kay?
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