Yeah, but it still feels depressing. If the original group really is into this for a moral reason, shouldn't they care that there is a difference between having dirty thoughts about 15/16 year old girls and writing romantic stories about Buffy and Angel being in love back in season 1 when their relationship just started out [not even considering that the shows in question actually support people becoming shippers of these relationships]? Or Smallville where the characters were 14/15 in season 1? [not to mention that the *actors* who after all play a large reason why people fall for these underage characters often were anything but underage when they portrayed these characters]
Then again, I think one large difference comes from the fact that fandom is mostly female dominated. And female attraction just frequently runs along different lines than typical male attraction. So trying to apply the same standards will probably just lead to confusion.
It's not that I don't have sympathy with those type of watchgroups, I actually do (probably even more so than your typical livejournal users), it just strikes me as an area where typical standards don't work.
Of course, must of this case is still in the open. We don't know if this really will go any further and deeper into fandom circles or if this is as far as their interests go.
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Then again, I think one large difference comes from the fact that fandom is mostly female dominated. And female attraction just frequently runs along different lines than typical male attraction. So trying to apply the same standards will probably just lead to confusion.
It's not that I don't have sympathy with those type of watchgroups, I actually do (probably even more so than your typical livejournal users), it just strikes me as an area where typical standards don't work.
Of course, must of this case is still in the open. We don't know if this really will go any further and deeper into fandom circles or if this is as far as their interests go.