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truly annoying when people act condescending about how they don’t care about “shipping discourse” because they’re a Real, Mature Person and it doesn’t matter in Real Adult Life. a us congressperson got called a pedophile in mainstream media for having lolicon in her twitter likes. that meets pretty much any arbitrary criteria for “real” and “mature” that you can set.
like…. it’s almost like the people who exist in fandom are real people, who exist in every facet of daily life, and have interactions with the world outside of fandom. and they have consistent belief systems from which they make choices that affect the world outside of fandom. and you have to interact with fandom people, because they exist in real life, and are not going to stop existing, and therefore their actions and belief systems will affect you even if you hate fandom and never touch it.
like. you don’t have to like or participate in any subculture for any reason, but it’s pretty baredfacedly nasty to imply that people within that subculture inherently do not matter and the political makeup of that subculture is irrelevant in or outside of it. reactionary trends in any subculture affect the world outside of it because people don’t solely exist within subcultures, and also, it’s kind of shitty actually to act like people in a subculture should be okay with the people around them being reactionary fascists just because it annoys you to see them talk about it. there shouldn’t be a line where it’s suddenly Too Cringe to talk about rising fascist ideology because you don’t want to acknowledge a group of people exists and you have to interact with them in real life lol.
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