spacemonkeyg78:

siderealsandman:

siderealsandman:

fandom as a whole is migrating away from a mutual appreciation of a story and towards an endless cycle of nitpicking and discourse and frankly that’s just Exhausting

Its just an endless stream of “you’re doing it wrong”. You’re reading this wrong, you’re appreciating this character wrong, you’re appreciating this character too much, you’re not appreciating this character enough, its not enough that I don’t like this pairing but it’s wrong to like it, you’re enjoying this wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.

And honestly it’s just tiring.

Weird how this seemed to worsen after privileged fans completely invaded fandom with the introduction of social media, especially the creative side of fandom often populated by women/lgbtq+/PoC/other marginalized groups to enforce canon and perform gatekeeping functions of all aspects where before we could actually critique and discuss social implications of media along with discussing or creating our own reinterpretations of popular media to ensure our inclusion (which otherwise never happens) without people telling us it’s wrong, hateful, disrespectful, and willfully misinterpreting critique and recreations as personal attacks of your privileged status and reinterpretations as disrespectful to the creators (and your protected status as top of the food chain) etc because let’s face it, some people like really awful things and media keeps feeding them these things but it becomes worse because people refuse to examine why others dislike what they like and why people harmed by liking these things critique these things and create better versions of popular media that creates more inclusion and equality.

Most of the worse behavior I see over and over are by privileged groups throwing tantrums, threatening others, harassing people, performing actual crimes due to hate and or setting up vulnerable fans/fandoms for further abuse by the work just because other people who weren’t lucky enough to be born white, straight, male, able bodied and other status quo attributes want better and do it through either critique, protest, debate or creative outlets.

Setting boundaries to protect marginalized fans from that type of behavior is good and I’m sorry my reblog of that post overlooked that!