"you use big words and I don't like it, therefore you are an aca-fan."
Someone above mentioned also the distinction (that also I've only begun to see) between Watsonian vs. Doylian meta, so I want to believe that while some people are very much against any kind of analysis, they're mostly in the minority (too optimistic of me?) and it's only this looking at fandom from the outside that really pisses on fans cheerios. I'm seeing a tiny bit of this already on the Spanish side of SPN and HP fandoms, where character motivations are cool subjects, while more encompassing race and gender conversations are still newish and considered squee killers. Although - hmmm - IIRC the word aca-fan or an equivalent has yet to be used in a Spanish post.
I left fandom I thought for good in the early 1990s because of the fan antipathy toward academics. I'm damn depressed to keep running into it nowadays,
I'm only now realizing that this antipathy is greater than I had thought. LJ friends have made subtle comments about not wanting to engage in meta discussions, but until now I always had interpreted that at face value and not as antipathy. So, readjusting my perception.
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"you use big words and I don't like it, therefore you are an aca-fan."
Someone above mentioned also the distinction (that also I've only begun to see) between Watsonian vs. Doylian meta, so I want to believe that while some people are very much against any kind of analysis, they're mostly in the minority (too optimistic of me?) and it's only this looking at fandom from the outside that really pisses on fans cheerios. I'm seeing a tiny bit of this already on the Spanish side of SPN and HP fandoms, where character motivations are cool subjects, while more encompassing race and gender conversations are still newish and considered squee killers. Although - hmmm - IIRC the word aca-fan or an equivalent has yet to be used in a Spanish post.
I left fandom I thought for good in the early 1990s because of the fan antipathy toward academics. I'm damn depressed to keep running into it nowadays,
I'm only now realizing that this antipathy is greater than I had thought. LJ friends have made subtle comments about not wanting to engage in meta discussions, but until now I always had interpreted that at face value and not as antipathy. So, readjusting my perception.