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communistkenobi · 19 days ago

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like god you guys need to get like a government stipend for explaining racism and colonialism to fandom bloggers or at the very least a big red button to press that kills them immediately bc like I remember last summer trying to talk about colonialism in star trek (a very basic observation) and that was some of the most intensely negative reactions I’ve gotten from people on here about fandom in years lol. truly don’t know how you do it on a daily basis. I can imagine the constant sense of alienation whenever interacting with people who are basically just telling you to leave their digital whites-only neighbourhood

#it is an incredibly anti-intellectual space. anyway. reflecting on some of my disengagement with fandom after like 10 years of being in it #I know this is a different experience in many ways but it does remind me of constantly explaining cissexualism and transphobia to cis peopl #especially in academic/feminist/lgbt settings where people have no excuse not to ‘know better’#and the profound sense of isolation and loneliness and anger it creates. like it takes a tole on you and you’re just expected to carry it

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