On Fandom Reactions

[maychorian]

My Big Bang icon has never been so appropriate.

I know a lot of people are tired of hearing about this. But I haven't stopped thinking about it. And so I'm going to say even more about fandom and how we talk about things like the latest unfunny business. If you're not interested, please do scroll on by

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[maychorian]

People say that the victims are not responsible for her education, if not them than who?

It is our job to educate ourselves. And on the internet, it's so easy! There have been thousands and thousands and THOUSANDS of words written to explain all of these things. This is a good place to start, but there are lots of other places, too. These places have been linked over and over in the course of this conversation. If you choose not to click on them and read them, well...that's your choice.

And this comes back to the same reason that people didn't want to talk about derailing arguments. This happens over and over and over again. Imagine that you're having a conversation with like-minded people about a topic that concerns you. It's a fairly complicated topic, but you all have been studying for years, and you enjoy talking about it, or it's so important that you need to talk about it anyway. You use your own lingo, a verbal shorthand to describe complicated concepts, but you all know what the words mean. Could be physics or farming or fandom. Then, suddenly, someone barges into the conversation and says, "Hey, what are you talking about? What does that word mean? Oh, I don't think it means what you think it means. Why is this so important to you? You should be talking about something else. Oh, and also, you're wrong about absolutely everything you're saying."

This keeps happening again and again. And people get tired. It's not their job to teach this interupting person the basics because they decided to skip the 101 class, which is freely available for anyone to take if they really wanted to learn. This is why it's not the offended party's job to teach anyone.

I hope this helps you understand why people were curt with you in other places. If you want to keep talking about this, I'm happy to do that. Just let me know.