Yet none of you even considered asking me personally.
You should know that in any fandom, the crazies are louder than the normal, positive folks. I don't think I should be lambasted for mocking the stranger parts of japanophilia, just because you don't identify with them. It would be impossible for me to delineate every single iteration of the phenomena and keep the brevity of my statement. I said "most" and "likely" I did not in any way include all of the japanophiles in my statement. However, your interpretation of a casual answer as "writing for the general public" and a "rant" makes what I said sound calculated and deliberately obtuse. If I wanted to write an essay about japanophiles, I would have. Trying to keep it to a paragraph, I used the generalization. It's really not a crime, and if you can't admit that there is a population of very strange people in the japanophile community, there isn't any common ground for us.
I live here. One might think that meant I had a right to comment on what I observe. I guess not.
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Date: 2004-08-24 09:04 am (UTC)You should know that in any fandom, the crazies are louder than the normal, positive folks. I don't think I should be lambasted for mocking the stranger parts of japanophilia, just because you don't identify with them. It would be impossible for me to delineate every single iteration of the phenomena and keep the brevity of my statement. I said "most" and "likely" I did not in any way include all of the japanophiles in my statement. However, your interpretation of a casual answer as "writing for the general public" and a "rant" makes what I said sound calculated and deliberately obtuse. If I wanted to write an essay about japanophiles, I would have. Trying to keep it to a paragraph, I used the generalization. It's really not a crime, and if you can't admit that there is a population of very strange people in the japanophile community, there isn't any common ground for us.
I live here. One might think that meant I had a right to comment on what I observe. I guess not.