[ frankie says go fuck yourself ]

[winterlive]

i hate bandom.

phaballa made a post about how bandom guys being gay with each other onstage is as offensive as blackface, and a buncha people commented, i'm sure you've all seen it.

and now bandom's oppressed by fandom at large, and if being gay onstage is exploitative then so is slashfic, and the fundamental point of all RPS is seperating the person from the role so if you hate fallout boy's music but still fan them b/c they gay all over each other that's totally the same thing, and OH GOD MAKE IT STOP.

i just can't STAND it. and to be honest with you, it's not the music. i've heard maybe six songs by the aforementioned bands and one is sort of okay and the others, eh, whatever. and do i care that they french each other on stage? no. i could give a flying fuck. let 'em! but sweet god in heaven, their fans are going to drive me insane. maybe there are two or three people in bandom who are reasonable and like the music (pete wentz's mom?), and i'm sure those three people are about five seconds away from a homicidal rampage right now, because believe me, i know their pain.

after all, i am in supernatural fandom.


ETA: GIP.

Comments

[lyra-wing.livejournal.com]

You shouldn't have to lock your opinions if you don't want to (SIGH! I got into this debate a few months ago when I made a public post about how I dislike rape fics), but I suppose you have to brace yourself for the fallout.

Which is why I'm glad I'm not in bandom, so I won't have to see folks hash and rehash this a million times over. ;)

(Man, I just checked out the post this morning, and WHERE are these folks coming from?)

[phaballa.livejournal.com]

I don't know! I think people on my flist must be talking about it behind locked posts with me filtered out because as far as I can tell, only one person with any (very slight) bandom connections have posted about it, and he agreed with me. I think they must have some sort of defensive network. Their machine could put Justin's to shame.

...okay, maybe not Justin's. Lance's, though.