I did get that, but something kbusse said suddenly resonated:
I think the reason I misunderstood you was that it seems a given to me that there's cultural capital and that there's power and that it's unevenly distributed, so I read your comments as accusations of power abuse above and beyond that, which you apparently didn't. I'm sorry to have misread you.
Me too!
I was feeling, and it was a feeling, as if I was being criticized (not by you, but by a number of encouters, including one very nasty one with a person now referring to me publicly as a "nutjob,") for all the sins of all academics, so I misread your comments as well.
Seems as if parts of fandom swing between grandiose delusions of power that are unrealistic (we can save this show/this actor/this everything/they must bow to our demands/let's start a petition) and extreme positions of victims (being told that my daring to write a letter to someone politely requesting to talk about her story was traumatizing, even though I have to write everybody to request permission, because apparently fans are such special snowflakes that they melt in such a situation was sort of the last straw), with no stops in between.
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I think the reason I misunderstood you was that it seems a given to me that there's cultural capital and that there's power and that it's unevenly distributed, so I read your comments as accusations of power abuse above and beyond that, which you apparently didn't. I'm sorry to have misread you.
Me too!
I was feeling, and it was a feeling, as if I was being criticized (not by you, but by a number of encouters, including one very nasty one with a person now referring to me publicly as a "nutjob,") for all the sins of all academics, so I misread your comments as well.
Seems as if parts of fandom swing between grandiose delusions of power that are unrealistic (we can save this show/this actor/this everything/they must bow to our demands/let's start a petition) and extreme positions of victims (being told that my daring to write a letter to someone politely requesting to talk about her story was traumatizing, even though I have to write everybody to request permission, because apparently fans are such special snowflakes that they melt in such a situation was sort of the last straw), with no stops in between.