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F!S Anon Meme (the Fifth)

Secrets, rants, opinions, anything you want to say about your fandom or a fandom or fandom in general, do it here! Anonymously, of course. Get it all off your chest.

(LJ's still lagging here and there, good luck.)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

how would one go about balancing a personal commitment to social justice ideals with being fannish about a canon that seems to think most of what one believes in is a load of crap?

srs question. thousands of other people seem to manage without feeling the need to tear themselves down constantly and i can't figure out how they do it.

[(Anonymous)]

I love my mom but she has a lot of homophobic attitudes. Obviously this is very hard for me as I am homosexual, but we still love each other despite this.

It's a really weird mindset that kind of comes close to "loving the sinner, hating the sin" but not quite. I think it's something most people get conditioned to do just living day to day, though, because everyone you know and everything you love is bound to be flawed in some respect, even if it's not in a SJ area. You learn to take the good with the bad.

Some of my best essays came from watching a show I loved that was offending me. I still loved the show and the characters, but I hated what it did. I did like how they made me approach my essays from different angles, though, so that's something?

[(Anonymous)]

now i feel like a complete asshole because i'm talking about lol fandom when this is a real problem for real people in the real world. i'm sorry.

but this made a lot of sense. thank you. i guess i'm at that point in my own processing where i'm having to cope with that nobody's perfect and that's okay thing. i mean, i can recognize that there are flaws, at least. i just hate that i have to be embarrassed by something that's supposed to be fun times.

[(Anonymous)]

Take a hot bath. Smoke a joint. Generally, relax.

[(Anonymous)]

this works really well until i run out of joints and then i'm back to compulsively apologizing for myself :(

[(Anonymous)]

Depends on the canon and how icky it is. You could always try appreciating it ironically - seems to work for hipsters. If it has good characters but a gross worldview, I'd focus my fannish efforts on how those characters deal with the worldview from inside the canon, sort of a "redeeming it from inside" view.

[(Anonymous)]

You can love something and find it problematic at the same time.

Also: people watch shows and read books and etc. about things that they don't believe are true all the time. It's called fiction. Historians watch Doctor Who, atheists (and feminists) watch Supernatural, medical professionals watch House. Sometimes you just gotta suspend disbelief for entertainment, and when something inspires a social justice or inaccuracy ragesasm, write a metafandom post about it. Win-win.