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⌈ Secret Post #760 ⌋

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101.

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102.

[Battlestar Galactica]

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103.

[Anderson Cooper]

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104.

[Hayate the Combat Buttler, Nagi and the Student Council Trio]

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105.

[Smallville, Supernatural]

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106.

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107.

[Nabari no Ou]

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108.

[Heroes and 'Gute zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten']

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109.

[Hellboy 2]

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110.

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111.

[Bleighton]

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112. [repeat]

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113.

[Psych, Dexter]

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114. [repeat]

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115.

[Supernatural]

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116.

[High School Musical]

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117.

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118.

[PGSM RPFS Keiko KitagawaXAyaka Komatsu]

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128.

[resized, not repeat]

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129.

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132.

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133.

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134.

[Kimi wa Petto]

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135.

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136.

[Scrooged]

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137.

[Avatar]

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141.

[Ghostbusters]

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142.

[katemodern]

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147.

[The Terminator/T2: Judgment Day]

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[Lordi]

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150.

[Left4Dead]

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[Tokio Hotel]

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[Phoenix Wright/Ace Attorney]

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159.

[Kodomo no Jikan]

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161.

[Avatar, Stormbenders]

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165.

[Friendly Hostility]

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168.

[Being Human]

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173. [not a secret]

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[Hugh Laurie/Stephen Fry; House/Wilson]

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Hello there, slippery slope.

They write and act like qualified sociologists, like experts, yet do not appear to have the reading to back it up. I do not want to limit such discussions to academics unless they already hold themselves to be such. Please look up the meaning of 'armchair expert'.

I do not want to limit such discussions to academics unless they already hold themselves to be such.

But I haven't seen anyone claim to be a sociologist. Nor has anyone brought up academic standards of discussion, except for you. Yes, the tone has been largely formal and... hyper-intellectual, but that's par for the course during fandom discussions.

I think that the problem is that you want these conversations to turn into complex theoretical discussions, while most of fandom is pretty happy to keep formal sociology on the periphery, while concentrating on their opinions and experiences. They're simply less interested in theory than they are in the actual subject of the discussion.

And yet with the subjects they bring up and their subsequent opinions, they are largely reiterating existing theories and then, usually, acting like they have happened upon something new. Perhaps I am bias, coming from an academic perspective, but it does bother me when the prior stated behaviour happens and I have studied the exact same sociological theory the week before.

Personally, I don't mind how complex or theoretical the discussions are, but when they are already complex theoretical discussions (by which I mean any essay that brings up post-colonial or feminist theory, both of which are drawn on practically daily on metafandom, depending on the current 'theme') then yes, I would like to see a little more research and a little less 'someone is wrong on the internet'.

In a simple example, ignoring the implications of semiology: if I happen upon a group of people discussing the colour of the sky, going around and around and largely repeating themselves, telling tales of when they saw a particularly beautiful sunset, sunrise, thunder storm, clear sky, etc etc, I do, unfortunately, feel somewhat bothered that they are, essentially, talking about the colour blue and yet have not once used, acknowledged or made vague reference to the already existing word blue.

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