Oh absolutely. I stopped myself ranting about WHY these kinds of
generalisations are bad because otherwise I'd have been here all day and
never got to my actual point :) Also as a white Australian anime fan I
worry about appropriating the anger of more marginalised non-US-based fans
of non-Western media, I'm never sure where to draw the line between the
sort of fannish annoyance I feel about being ignored as, say, a fan of
Western RPGs and more serious issues of representation and race/culture.
That happens to me with vids too, and half the time when I look at the
actual vid maker's comments they're pretty clear about trying to portray
THEIR experience of fandom, it's just other fans who act like it represents
All Of Us. (The other half of the time I get annoyed at everyone involved
and go draw some yuri or something to make myself feel better)
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Oh absolutely. I stopped myself ranting about WHY these kinds of generalisations are bad because otherwise I'd have been here all day and never got to my actual point :) Also as a white Australian anime fan I worry about appropriating the anger of more marginalised non-US-based fans of non-Western media, I'm never sure where to draw the line between the sort of fannish annoyance I feel about being ignored as, say, a fan of Western RPGs and more serious issues of representation and race/culture.
That happens to me with vids too, and half the time when I look at the actual vid maker's comments they're pretty clear about trying to portray THEIR experience of fandom, it's just other fans who act like it represents All Of Us. (The other half of the time I get annoyed at everyone involved and go draw some yuri or something to make myself feel better)