Yeah, the original comment showed up in my friend's journal and all I could think was WTF? It was so offensive... And now the commenter showed up to make it worse.
The drive to write fanfic, like being gay, is an intrinsic part of personality and psyche, and not removable without bizarre brainwashing techniques which pretty much destroy the entire personal identity.
It's been nice but I need to back away slowly now.
Well, that person doesn't seem to think that either orientation or fan-fiction writing is choice or nurture, but it still muddies the waters considerably to compare them (besides general offensiveness).
I think they're working overtime to project the image of a "sensitive artist person who must not be messed with."
Also, their point that no one should tell them who to date so no one should tell them not to write fanfic doesn't work for one other reason: A copyright holder telling someone not to write fanfic is more analogous to the person themselves telling you that you can't date them. In which case, yeah, you really do have to move on and find someone else.
(I mean, I'm glad almost no copyright holders are doing that. But it's still a very faulty analogy, and even if you're talking about society telling you not write fanfic it's still a really messed-up comparison.)
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The drive to write fanfic, like being gay, is an intrinsic part of personality and psyche, and not removable without bizarre brainwashing techniques which pretty much destroy the entire personal identity.
It's been nice but I need to back away slowly now.
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I think they're working overtime to project the image of a "sensitive artist person who must not be messed with."
Also, their point that no one should tell them who to date so no one should tell them not to write fanfic doesn't work for one other reason: A copyright holder telling someone not to write fanfic is more analogous to the person themselves telling you that you can't date them. In which case, yeah, you really do have to move on and find someone else.
(I mean, I'm glad almost no copyright holders are doing that. But it's still a very faulty analogy, and even if you're talking about society telling you not write fanfic it's still a really messed-up comparison.)
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