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« on: December 28, 2005, 10:24:15 AM »
Nancy--- nicely done "prattling". From everything you've said JF sounds completely fair and reasonable. I once looked over that guestbook of his, where he very briefly and reasonably pointed out that fans could at least take the slight time and trouble to make sure they spelled his name and his character's name correctly. The fan he was referring to got outraged, and basically called him a snob and know-it-all. You're walking into his Internet house, or place of business, get the man's name right. I'm completely behind Mr. Frid on this one. That includes the issue of people spending too much time watching TV.
PD and Nancy-- I haven't encountered them anyplace, but I just know those "fans" who think DS was "camp" (there are obnoxious smartasses* who assume everything good and old was "camp" and meant for laughs... meant for them to make fun of...) are really out there, somewhere. Why? Because they're everywhere. Throughout our society there are superior-minded numbskulls who can't or won't think outside the cultural parameters they're used to, who mock things because they're out of fashion and so seem "strange" to them. I thought they made fun from a distance, and didn't venture into DS fandom. I only respect a mocking impulse if it's not just a mindless impulse, not a knee-jerk sort of thing, and has had some thought (and a desire for fairness) put into it. Instead they're usually following an automatic urge to build oneself up by tearing something or someone else down.
Then they throw us a bone, by claiming DS, or whatever the object of the mocking is, is meant to be laughed at, they "get" it, and they really "like" DS. That don't cut no ice with me. If I find those guys here, I'm outing them as Trojan Horse fans, or something.
* I don't consider myself the obnoxious kind, though I may be wrong of course.