[ SECRET POST #243 ]

[shahni.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #243 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 074 secrets from Secret Submission Post #035.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Thursday, September 6th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

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[(Anonymous)]

1. so being fandom makes you fat AND anorexic.

9. wordpie

15. unfortunately, it does.

28. lol. lose. don't even start with the damn statistics for online hobbies where PEOPLE OF LIKE MIND AND PROCLIVITIES ASSEMBLE. you can't seriously be that stupid to see that statistics don't work like that.

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[(Anonymous)]

OP here, what I meant is that if you take a diverse group of people in the real world, very few of them would be homosexual. I think I read somewhere that around 10% of the population is homosexual. Yet, when I gather my flist together, a good 70-80% of them are homosexual, or at least bi. Considering that fandom is just as diverse as the world is (you've got fans from all over the world congregating online, after all), one would think that the total percentage of homosexuals in fandom would be parallel to the worldwide percentage, give or take a little. At least, that's what I thought - if that makes me stupid, I'm sorry for being stupid. :)

Re: 28

[norrowa.livejournal.com]

I... then that must just be your friendslist? Because I know I don't get the "everybody is gay" vibe from fandom XD

Re: 28

[iamadoughnut.livejournal.com]

Did you miss the "people of like mind and proclivities" part? No, fandom is not actually a representative sample of the world population.

And it's more like 3-4% of the population is gay. The 10% is a misunderstanding of some Kinsey data.

Re: 28

[(Anonymous)]

but as others have pointed out elsewhere, people of like mind and interests tend to congregate together. that usually also indicates acceptance, probably more so than the very real world shows.

throw your statistics away. you can't apply the "10% gay in the real world" to online fandom. or anything else. if you go to Greenwich Village, I can guarantee you'll find the percentage of gay people around you is significantly higher.