Wank Expansion
When we last left the Buffy/Angel fandom, they were having fun with an anonymous lust meme, and Jennyo was asking “Why?” Things have kinda escalated since then. Jennyo posted a rant which I don’t know how to summarize, because it’s all over the place. The two main points: queer play (hugging, smooching, boob-squeezing, ectra) in virtual space can be bad, since it turns queerness into a spectacle and makes it an Other, something done to be cool; also, fandom has a feminism problem, especially seen in a “certain set of boyslashers,” who put out work with “clearly anti-woman attitudes.”

Swmbo responds, pissed that someone’s questioning the way she and her friends express themselves.

Jane Davitt also takes offence, defending her use of *hugs*, and sniping about the “appallingly written screeds” these “people who pride themselves, for no adequare reason that I can see, on being intellectuals” are coming up with.

In the meantime, Jennyo grumbles about the “anti-intellectual disingeunity of fandom,” and other people grumble that she’s usurping the term intellectual.

Much fun is had in all the comments. If by “fun” you mean snippy insults, “word”-ing of snippy insults, meta on top of meta, mentions of fandom_wank, and a lot of poor-us-vs-mean-them whining. But this is fandom_wank, so you probably do.