Re: Anti-intellectualism in fandom

Lee Ratner wrote:
>
>   I've noticed something similar in other fandoms as well. Slate.com's
> chief movie
> reviewer is a woman named Dana Stevens. Anybody who reads the Fray,
> the reader
> comment section, will note that Dana Stevens is not particularly liked
> by a certain segment
> of the population, fans of movies like 300 or any other fannish type
> movie because they do not'
> seem to like her cultural analysis of the movies they like, insisting
> that they are only movies.

Well, then, they don't have to read them.

(Mark gets the same thing, people who complain they don't like his 
reviews.  The basic answer is that he'll refund what they paid for 
them--which is to say, nothing--and they don't have to read any more. 
Sheesh!)

-- 
Evelyn C. Leeper
Life is complex--it has real and imaginary parts.  --anonymous