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I'm so ready for this semester to be over. I just . . . yeah. Over, please. You have no idea how much I want to bang my head against the floor until I am knocked unconscious and they find me passed out in the commuter lounge.
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The "dogpiling" discussions make me laugh. So many interesting and productive conversations as a result of a soi-disant dogpile over whether dogpiles ever result in anything interesting or productive. Erm, case closed?
I mean, really. The Krystalnacht discussion was full of people wondering when it was okay to use historical tragedies and when it wasn't and how we could do it respectfully and whether oversacralizing the Holocaust makes it too easy to believe it can't happen again and there were so many different opinions. I wasn't paying attention to the internets as much during the OSBP because I still had some willpower left then but there were discussions about objectification and enlightenment and good intentions and there were guides how not to objectify and then maybe the guides were objectifying and again, lots of opinions.
So, exactly, where is all this groupthink and quashed dissent that's supposed to be going on? Do people really want to be racist or misogynist or homophobic or anti-Semitic that much?
We're fans. We analyze everything to death; that's what we do. For every two of us there's at least three opinions.
I mean, just looking at a week's worth of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
metafandom reveals the type of diversity of opinion that I honestly wouldn't know how to find anywhere else. Are people just in a completely different panfandom than I am?
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The "dogpiling" discussions make me laugh. So many interesting and productive conversations as a result of a soi-disant dogpile over whether dogpiles ever result in anything interesting or productive. Erm, case closed?
I mean, really. The Krystalnacht discussion was full of people wondering when it was okay to use historical tragedies and when it wasn't and how we could do it respectfully and whether oversacralizing the Holocaust makes it too easy to believe it can't happen again and there were so many different opinions. I wasn't paying attention to the internets as much during the OSBP because I still had some willpower left then but there were discussions about objectification and enlightenment and good intentions and there were guides how not to objectify and then maybe the guides were objectifying and again, lots of opinions.
So, exactly, where is all this groupthink and quashed dissent that's supposed to be going on? Do people really want to be racist or misogynist or homophobic or anti-Semitic that much?
We're fans. We analyze everything to death; that's what we do. For every two of us there's at least three opinions.
I mean, just looking at a week's worth of
metafandom reveals the type of diversity of opinion that I honestly wouldn't know how to find anywhere else. Are people just in a completely different panfandom than I am?