I have officially been in too many fandom wars

[neadods]

I have officially been in too many fandom wars. Because my reaction to finally reading the essay that's caused so much anger in Holmes fandom was to shriek...

... with laughter. Because it's all about someone who couldn't keep those awful Brett fangirls out of his hobby, and now the leaders of the REAL fans are letting in all the Cumberbatch fangirls AND THAT OFFENDS HIS DICKENSIAN PRINCIPLES! If you let in people like that, they'll just go and interrogate the text from the wrong perspective!

The supplanted SMOFs of Trek and Who fandom will doubtless chime in to sing the Butthurt Battle Hymn in harmony.

Me, I'm going to continue to be equally as proud of Watson's Tin Box and Sherlocks NYC and DC. And the canon on my phone is going to have to continue to live pixel-by-pixel with a metric ton of BBC fanfic.

For fuck's sake, has shouting "YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!" ever actually chased the kids off the lawn?

*eyeroll* Here, have Lucy Liu being buried in Pomeranians.

Comments

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I'm going to dispute this because I think it has nothing to do with gender and everything to do with power. I've seen it play out in majority-female fandoms, and more than that, in church groups, charitable groups - it's all about who has the power to speak for the tribe, and moreover, to control who is "in" or "out", be it a 6th grade clique or a fandom or a literary society.

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

I misspoke. It's always about your tribe and your power. Sometimes (as in Who and Holmes) it is also about your gender.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Cf. the American Georgette Heyer fans referenced alive.