I think that there's a difference between "stanning" and just trying to understand. Obviously, the two things are often connected as we try to understand the ones we care about, but that's not always the case. And also liking doesn't mean "justifying".
I like your thoughts about how fandom essentially educated us for analysis and meta-reading of the RL world. I really can relate to that and I owe fandom so much in terms of ability to understand the world around me and my personal culture too. People put so much of their knowledge (literary, linguistic, sociologic and so on) in their analysis, fandom is really a place where you can learn a lot.
Interesting interesting thoughts. I was lucky in that I grew up with a mother who was inclined to discuss and speculate about why people of our acquaintance and fictional characters we were familiar with are the way they are (her father was a psychologist, so I guess it runs in the family). As a fan, my forays into RPF (the Beatles) have helped me figure out a lot about how people tick, even more so than fictional fandoms.
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I think that there's a difference between "stanning" and just trying to understand. Obviously, the two things are often connected as we try to understand the ones we care about, but that's not always the case. And also liking doesn't mean "justifying".
I like your thoughts about how fandom essentially educated us for analysis and meta-reading of the RL world. I really can relate to that and I owe fandom so much in terms of ability to understand the world around me and my personal culture too. People put so much of their knowledge (literary, linguistic, sociologic and so on) in their analysis, fandom is really a place where you can learn a lot.
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