You are definitely right, in one of the comments, that the reaction to this is based a lot on how one reads the article; I f.x. had the feeling that she felt the Trek-fans were more sane than us *S* No way of telling, really, short of asking her.
Anyway, my point in commenting here was something entirely different: Yes, this may be an article that "could have been a lot worse" (as paraphrased from a lot of people) and yes, we fans are weird to the outside view. But why do we have to be happy that it isn't worse? Why can't we, like any other group of people, expect to be treated better than this simply because we are weird or odd to the onlooker? I think we do need to value ourselves and our hobby highly enough to expect or even demand a certain amount of respect. This being said, I hate when people go all high and mighty and holier-than-thou on something - I do not want us to lose the irony inherint in claiming that Harry is better off with Draco than Ginny (which I happily do and laugh about *S*).
I hope what I'm trying to say here is coming through: It's about not short-changing ourselves and accepting being ridiculed just because it could've been worse. It's like saying the school bully is okay because at least he didn't punch your front teeth out... Yes, this sort of article is a fact of life and letting it run off you is a lot more comfortable than getting upset. (I'm mainly upset on behalf of two friends, one of whom was mentioned by name despite asking not to be. Being ridiculed is no news to me, hey, I have people chuck water at me for how I look *G*) So I'm not saying it's great to cry bloody murder, but I think it's great to call attention to the fact that this was in many ways a highly unethical article and that better should be expected.
(P.S. And that way of dismissing other people's research was appalling too.)
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You are definitely right, in one of the comments, that the reaction to this is based a lot on how one reads the article; I f.x. had the feeling that she felt the Trek-fans were more sane than us *S* No way of telling, really, short of asking her.
Anyway, my point in commenting here was something entirely different:
Yes, this may be an article that "could have been a lot worse" (as paraphrased from a lot of people) and yes, we fans are weird to the outside view.
But why do we have to be happy that it isn't worse? Why can't we, like any other group of people, expect to be treated better than this simply because we are weird or odd to the onlooker? I think we do need to value ourselves and our hobby highly enough to expect or even demand a certain amount of respect.
This being said, I hate when people go all high and mighty and holier-than-thou on something - I do not want us to lose the irony inherint in claiming that Harry is better off with Draco than Ginny (which I happily do and laugh about *S*).
I hope what I'm trying to say here is coming through: It's about not short-changing ourselves and accepting being ridiculed just because it could've been worse. It's like saying the school bully is okay because at least he didn't punch your front teeth out...
Yes, this sort of article is a fact of life and letting it run off you is a lot more comfortable than getting upset. (I'm mainly upset on behalf of two friends, one of whom was mentioned by name despite asking not to be. Being ridiculed is no news to me, hey, I have people chuck water at me for how I look *G*)
So I'm not saying it's great to cry bloody murder, but I think it's great to call attention to the fact that this was in many ways a highly unethical article and that better should be expected.
(P.S. And that way of dismissing other people's research was appalling too.)