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amireal.livejournal.com: Thursday, July 19, 2007
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violet_quill: Reader vs. Fandomer? - Question: How do you feel that being in fandom has affected your enjoyment of the books as a reader? -- kbusse: [in fandebate] Gender and Fan Studies (Round Seven): Cornel Sandvoss and Kristina Busse - In a way, when I personally talk about fanboys and fangirls, it's much less about actual biobodies than it is about certain ways of engaging with source texts and certain ways of theorizing and studying fans. -
- misscam: Hating that character/pairing - or hating the fans? - So, those of you that have an active dislike of a character or a pairing in fandom, do you think your dislike is fuelled as much by fans of it as the thing itself? -
- fandrogyny: In light of the Busse/Cornel debate... - asserting "gender-blindness" does a disservice to both fans and fan studies.[...]Roughly fifty percent of the world's population does not have the ability to ignore or forget a gender divide, despite how much they might wish to -