The difference between "Elitism" and "cliqueishness": AKA "WORDS HAVE MEANINGS"

[apiphile]

ELITE:

-noun1. ( often used with a plural verb ) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons

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[stratospherique]

BUT DEREK ELITISM IS WRONG AND EVIL

AND EVERYONE ON THE INTERNET SHOULD BE FRIENDS

God I hate people.

[apiphile]

Fandom has such a chronic case of Geek Social Fallacy #1.

[stratospherique]

Seriously. I called out the anon on the meme, btw, so we'll see what happens with that.

[apiphile]

:P I know, and if you got your comments emailed to you you'd know I answered you.

[wolfy_writing]

Are people assuming fandom is their personal therapy group again? Because if I wanted to spend all of my time being extremely gentle with people who display only the most rudimentary signs of artistic talent and personal maturity, ensuring all criticism was in the most gentle language imaginable, and constantly reassuring them that the fact they bothered to try at all is wonderful, I'd be a preschool teacher. Because four-year-olds tend to be cute, and you can hope they'll eventually grow out of it.

[apiphile]

More that they're suffering from a bad case of Geek Social Fallacy #1: Ostracisers Are Bad, but transferred to writing. Apparently you can't think things suck any more or refuse to read them, which is bad news for me and my unreasonably high standards and stroppy entitlement complex. :D

[wolfy_writing]

So you're now morally obligated to like everything written in the fandom? That's now how liking things works!

[apiphile]

We're morally obliged to never mention that we dislike anything. Which rather cuts down the amount of talking I do since about 98% of it is "I HATE THIS THING".