If being a fangirl means being primarily in fandom to squee over the hotness of (insert character or actor name here), then that's not me.
And I've seen "fanboy" used to mean the sort of fan who doesn't bathe, has no social skills, and opens conversations with total strangers by telling them what his character did last night--I complain sometimes about lacking social skills, but that stereotype's not me either.
I see myself as a geek, who obsesses about certain fandoms because I love the plots and the characters. I don't think I look at the texts differently from the way men do, but a few male fen I've met assume that I do.
And the same guys who think I only read HP for the hot men? They're the ones who have posters of babes in chainmail bikinis all over their walls...
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And I've seen "fanboy" used to mean the sort of fan who doesn't bathe, has no social skills, and opens conversations with total strangers by telling them what his character did last night--I complain sometimes about lacking social skills, but that stereotype's not me either.
I see myself as a geek, who obsesses about certain fandoms because I love the plots and the characters. I don't think I look at the texts differently from the way men do, but a few male fen I've met assume that I do.
And the same guys who think I only read HP for the hot men? They're the ones who have posters of babes in chainmail bikinis all over their walls...
Bah, I'm rambling, and not very coherently...