You are hereby banished from the Kingdom of Squee
Over the course of the recent warnings controversy, I kept seeing phrases like: "As an exiled BNF myself..." "I was forced to leave fandom years ago..." "...she was kicked out of fandom..."
...and this isn't the first time I've heard it.

I've been active in various fandoms for about 15 years now and I still don't understand the concept of being "kicked out"; nor have I seen such a thing occur.

What does it even mean? You get a court order to stop cosplaying or writing fanfic? The postal service intercepts your zine submissions? Ninjas come in the night and steal all your DVDs? I'm utterly bewildered. It seems awfully vague, not to mention unenforceable.

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	tetradecimal 2009-07-03 06:01 pm UTC (link)
	Become a BNF and you, too, can jockey for support amongst lesser fans. It's a battle to determine who ostracizes who first! Will you be declared Queen of the Fen, receiver of iPods and cool swag? Or will you be forced to slink away in shame and self-imposed exile? I don't remember HS being like this, though. Did everyone go to Machiavelli High or something? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cat_mcdougall 2009-07-03 06:06 pm UTC (link)
	Nah. But I went to a very clique-oriented high school. If you didn't have a "posse" or "group" you were, frankly, ostracised. By EVERYONE. I didn't have a posse or group. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	QKvVrsaOpcPGJQYcU (Anonymous) 2009-07-25 06:11 pm UTC (link)
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	scifantasy 2009-07-03 09:50 pm UTC (link)
	Become a BNF and you, too, can jockey for support amongst lesser fans. It's a battle to determine who ostracizes who first! Will you be declared Queen of the Fen, receiver of iPods and cool swag? Or will you be forced to slink away in shame and self-imposed exile? Sounds like a tabletop game. How meta. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	pastri_archy 2009-07-04 10:16 am UTC (link)
	The adults divided us into convenient "ponds" so we'd be easier to deal with. Big fish ate the little fish routinely, and little fish would band together to critisize the big fish's technique. My high school had 2000+ so YMMV on the method. I was in the "Honors kid" pond and it could get bloody... (Reply to this)(Parent)

kumquat_of_doom
2009-07-04 05:03 pm UTC (link)

I don't remember HS being like this, though.

Me neither. :/ I always got on reasonably well with the Popular Girls... if we had a school queen bee, she was a girl who'd been my best friend when we were little. And another of the Popular Girls (TM) is still my best friend three years out of high school - I was chief bridesmaid at her wedding at Christmas.

Am I geekin' it wrong?

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	caito 2009-07-04 11:41 pm UTC (link)
	I think, when you're a teenager with no real-world experience, high school seems that bad. And I think a lot of people don't remember what went on in high school as often as they remember the strong feelings they had in high school. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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