Fanboy vs Fangirl

[oparu]

My friend spaltor made an awesome post today about the distinction between fangirl and fanboy.

check it out here!Interestingly they diverge on 'passion' (for boys) and 'obsession' (for girls). Oddly, I would have pegged many guys (the ones of TrekBBS, the people who stay up late to make sure no one's wrong on the internet, a guy who left me a scathing

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[w_zimmerman]

Does that make me a James Watson fangirl? Nikola is never going to let me hear the end of this...

[kat_rowe]

On the upside, fanboys are considerably more likely to live in their mothers' basements...

[spaltor]

Hey! Thanks for the shout out. I'm getting a lot of feedback on that post, which is awesome - especially since writing made me so grumpy. ;) My friends Jen & Angela, (the hosts of the podcast) came up with the term "Anomaly" because there didn't seem to be an appropriate existing term to denote a socially functional and sane female fan.

Also, I adore your fic... :)

[oparu]

Ha! thanks :)

I wanna be an anomaly too. It's a well written gripe and it really sucks that even in something not respected, like fandom, women are still somehow beneath men?

[peterlme]

I don't think fangirls are obsessive.I can understand your annoyance.