But see...I really don't see you as not part of the conversations. You may have a slightly different conversation than other people, even a different conversation than the majority, but that's kind of like shipping minority pairings, I think.
I can only speak for myself, but just because you don't get exactly the same out of it or don't see it exactly the same way doesn't mean to me that you're not part of this space, just like you writing a different pairing doesn't mean that you're better or worse a fan but only that your interests are slightly off the mainstream...
I do think your post was a bit aggressive, and I understand where you're coming from...heck, I seem to especially collect people who dissent with what I'd consider mainstream, and I know how frustrated they often are (in general and with me :)
I do feel that Ces was simply pointing toward what she felt was special and unusual...not that everyone needed to engage that way. I think any statement like fandom is X clearly is excluding large numbers of people, but I never read these statements as seriously saying that not being or liking X makes one not a fan or not deserving of participating and engaging..
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Date: 2007-06-22 02:48 am (UTC)From:I can only speak for myself, but just because you don't get exactly the same out of it or don't see it exactly the same way doesn't mean to me that you're not part of this space, just like you writing a different pairing doesn't mean that you're better or worse a fan but only that your interests are slightly off the mainstream...
I do think your post was a bit aggressive, and I understand where you're coming from...heck, I seem to especially collect people who dissent with what I'd consider mainstream, and I know how frustrated they often are (in general and with me :)
I do feel that Ces was simply pointing toward what she felt was special and unusual...not that everyone needed to engage that way. I think any statement like fandom is X clearly is excluding large numbers of people, but I never read these statements as seriously saying that not being or liking X makes one not a fan or not deserving of participating and engaging..