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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I really can't say enough that running away is not all right. It's unfortunately extremely, extremely easy to do, and really tempting.
We're all here because we choose to be, you know? Fandom is an optional space. But if you have chosen fandom space, then you get both the good, and the fun - and the bad, hurtful, and offensive. There are people that have chosen this space in spite of the much higher potential to be hurt, and we should have our attention constantly drawn to this fact so that fandom as a whole can stop hurting them.
So I don't get the people that say 'we need to stop talking about racism, we need to be nice, we need to be fun'. Fandom needs to be aware. We like to act as if we are so progressive, so on-the-ball, so 'safe' - let's actually be that way, people!
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(I surfed in via f-of-f)
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I'm a bit disappointed, too, because this was another really great opportunity for fandom to discuss something and it basically got derailed almost from the start. And that's not counting the numerous "omg can we stop talking about this already comments I've seen/ :/
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The great conversations are happening! amazonziti had to make a second post to keep up with it!
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