Asides

Fandom Isn’t Exclusive

I’ll never understand why a subculture so familiar with exclusion is so quick to turn around and exclude people. https://comicsbeat.com/enough-with-the-faux-fake-geek-girl-outrage-already/

EXACTLY. “We aren’t all nerdy about the same things & we don’t all participate in nerd culture the same way.” https://squidygirl.blogspot.com/2012/11/fake-nerd-girls-whores-and-sexism.html

Some people like Superman, others like the Hulk. People have their favorite interpretations of Batman. People have their favorite X-Men. If you like Grant Morrison’s Batman & someone else prefers Batman: The Animated Series, that doesn’t make the other person NOT a Batman fan. No more than you liking Data and them liking Spock makes them not a Star Trek fan, or them preferring the “wrong” Doctor. Someone who got into Doctor Who with Smith, Tennant or Eccleston is no less a fan than someone who got into it with, say, Tom Baker…

So if someone likes a comic book character, but hasn’t read the same 100 issues YOU have, that doesn’t make them not a fan.

Some people would rather express their fandom with costuming, or fanfic, or fan art, instead of throwing comics in a box. Again, still fans. Someone takes the time to collect enough Batman pics to post 3/day to Tumblr for a year, but doesn’t like the current books? Sounds fannish.

Interesting. This article is missing a few numbers, but Wikipedia’s article on the election…

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/gary-johnson-ran-most-successful-libertarian-campaign-party-193500973–politics.html

Interesting. This article is missing a few numbers, but Wikipedia's article on the election places him at 0.95% of the popular vote, the highest of the third party candidates this year (though still smaller than the gap between Romney & Obama). Still smaller than Nader's share in 2000, and of course WAY smaller than Ross Perot's record 18% in 1992.

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Be sure to vote today even if you don’t like the major choices for President….

Be sure to vote today even if you don't like the major choices for President. Don't just stay home to “send a message,” vote for a third party candidate instead. Staying home sends a message all right, but not about your disappointment with the system. It sends the message that you're willing to lie down and let the system walk all over you.

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Whoa. I can think of two incidents where this could have been me

http://www.foodallergy.org/page/father-urges-others-to-stay-safe-in-anaphylaxis-awareness-video-campaign

Whoa. I can think of two incidents where this could have been me: one where I could have been the subject, and one where I could have been telling the story.

First, when I was 18, I accidentally ate part of a peanut butter cookie at an event and didn’t have my Epi-Pen with me. Fortunately we weren’t very far from home (though knowing what I know now, 911 might have been a better option).

And then just last month, on vacation, the hotel restaurant messed up our order and gave our son a PBJ sandwich. Katie caught it before he ate any of it, and it’s possible he hasn’t inherited my allergy to peanuts, but we didn’t want to find out that way.