I wonder if this is why people get so much more personal about takes they don't like, because they're implicitly having the conversation while treating characters as nothing but vessels for self-expression (a thing that occurs with people who make every character the same in my experience) and therefore all criticism of a thing becomes criticism of you.
I can sort of even relate to that myself, that was definitely the source of why I didn't like certain people, because everything they said felt like an attack on me and my preferences and the kind of person that I am. I still get that sometimes, bc I so associate a certain tone of discussing things in fandom (the "you have to be fucking stupid or uneducated to like this") and unfortunately... that's just the way some people express disliking a thing.
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Date: 10/6/23 10:21 (UTC)I wonder if this is why people get so much more personal about takes they don't like, because they're implicitly having the conversation while treating characters as nothing but vessels for self-expression (a thing that occurs with people who make every character the same in my experience) and therefore all criticism of a thing becomes criticism of you.
I can sort of even relate to that myself, that was definitely the source of why I didn't like certain people, because everything they said felt like an attack on me and my preferences and the kind of person that I am. I still get that sometimes, bc I so associate a certain tone of discussing things in fandom (the "you have to be fucking stupid or uneducated to like this") and unfortunately... that's just the way some people express disliking a thing.